Hoddle Grid
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The Hoddle Grid is the contemporary name given to the approximately 1.61-by-0.80-kilometre grid of streets that form the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. Bounded by Flinders Street,
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
Robert Hoddle
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Robert Hoddle was a surveyor and artist. He was the first Surveyor-General of Victoria from 1851 to 1853. He was previously the Surveyor-in-Charge of the Port Phillip District from 1837 to 1851. He be
Hoddle c. 1878
Robert Hoddle with his omnipresent surveying telescope
Melbourne central business district, designed by Hoddle