Hoddle Grid

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Melbourne CBD

Trees surrounded by buildings - King St. Melbourne

Map of central Melbourne

Schematic plan of Hoddle's allotments for the village of Melbourne, March,1837

Each 'block' was further subdivided into 20 allotments each 76 perches in area

The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia.

Named after its designer, Robert Hoddle, the Grid was laid out in 1837. All major streets are one and half chains in width, while all blocks are exactly 10 chains square. It is one mile long by half a mile wide, and oriented with its long axis rotated 28 degrees counterclockwise of the east-west direction, to align better with the course of the Yarra River.

While the survey plan has proved, in time, to be far sighted for public utility, at the time Hoddle's instructions from Governor Gipps were more prosaic. Land allotments for sale at public auction were to be produced as quickly as possible to deliver to the market. Gipps also insisted that all towns laid out during his term of office should have no public squares included within their boundaries being convinced that they only encouraged democracy.

In the 1960s, surveys extended the district, incorporating the region of similarly laid out streets bounded by Victoria Street, Dudley Street and the Queen Victoria Market.

East-west streets

• Flinders Street (southernmost)
• Flinders Lane¹
• Collins Street
• Little Collins Street²
• Bourke Street, incorporating Bourke Street Mall
• Little Bourke Street³
• Lonsdale Street
• Little Lonsdale Street⁴
• La Trobe Street (also written LaTrobe) (northernmost of the original district)
• Little La Trobe Street⁵
• Mackenzie Street⁶
• A'Beckett Street⁷
• Franklin Street
• Therry Street (northernmost, borders Queen Victoria Market)

North-south streets

• Spring Street (easternmost)
• Exhibition Street
• Russell Street
• Swanston Street
• Elizabeth Street
• Queen Street
• Market Street¹
• William Street
• King Street
• Spencer Street (westernmost)

Surrounding localities

Melbourne suburbs near Melbourne CBD
(City of Melbourne)
West Melbourne
North Melbourne, Carlton
Fitzroy
Melbourne Docklands
Melbourne CBD
East Melbourne
Albert Park, Port Melbourne
Southbank, Melbourne
(St. Kilda Road area)
South Yarra












 



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