Lonsdale Street is a main street and thoroughfare in the Melbourne central business district, Australia. It runs roughly east–west and was laid out in 1837 as one of Melbourne's original boundaries within the Hoddle Grid. The street extends from Spring Street in the east to Spencer Street in the west.
Lonsdale Street
Wesley Church
Lonsdale Street near Swanston Street
Emporium Melbourne on Lonsdale 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