Clayton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Monash. At the 2006 Census, Clayton had a population of 14,332.
The main focus for the suburb of Clayton is the shopping strip that runs along Clayton Rd. The local railway station, situated at the northern end of the shopping strip bears the name Clayton.
The area was first occupied for farm...
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Clayton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Monash. At the 2006 Census, Clayton had a population of 14,332.
The main focus for the suburb of Clayton is the shopping strip that runs along Clayton Rd. The local railway station, situated at the northern end of the shopping strip bears the name Clayton.
The area was first occupied for farming in the 1850s and was originally named after a property, "Clayton Vale", owned by lawyer John Hughes Clayton in the 1860s. A township was originally gazetted on Dandenong Road and in 1862 a primary school was opened at the corner of Dandenong Road and Clayton Road, to serve the whole of the Clayton district. This school changed its name to Clayton North Primary School in 1954.
The construction of the railway to Dandenong and Gippsland about 1 km south of Dandenong Road in 1878 prompted the start of a second township where the line crossed...
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