Flinders Street, Melbourne
Flinders Street is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Running roughly parallel to the Yarra River, Flinders Street forms the southern edge of the Hoddle Grid. It is exactly 1 mi (1.6 km) in length and one and a half chains in width.
Flinders Street, Melbourne
Flinders Street station, located at the intersection of Flinders Street and Swanston Streets, 1927.
Stairs to the now closed Degraves Street Subway underpass entrance to the station, viewed from the north side of Flinders Street
The Hoddle Grid is the contemporary name given to the approximately 1-by-0.5-mile grid of streets that form the Melbourne central business district, Australia. Bounded by Flinders Street, Spring Street, La Trobe Street, and Spencer Street, it lies at an angle to the rest of the Melbourne suburban grid, and so is easily recognisable. It is named after the surveyor Robert Hoddle, who marked it out in 1837, establishing the first formal town plan. This grid of streets, laid out when there were only a few hundred settlers, became the nucleus for what is now Melbourne, a city of over five million people.
Aerial view of the city centre looking east. The Yarra River is on the right and the Melbourne Cricket Ground is in the background.
Satellite image of Melbourne at night, showing the grid plan of its major roads and streets.
Melbourne 1880, Samuel Calvert
Trees surrounded by buildings, King Street
