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    The Hoddle Grid is the contemporary name given to the approximately 1-by-0.5-mile (1.61 km × 0.80 km) grid of streets that form the Melbourne central business...
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    urban area of the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, centred on the Hoddle Grid, the oldest part of the city laid out in 1837, and includes its fringes...
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    highway is named after the surveyor Robert Hoddle, who planned central Melbourne's Hoddle Grid.[citation needed] Hoddle Main Road starts at the intersection...
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    Adelaide) of the river were laid out in grid pattern, with the city surrounded by the Adelaide Park Lands. Hoddle Grid is the name given to the layout of Melbourne...
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    July 1851. He is especially recognized for the design and layout of the Hoddle Grid in 1837, the area which forms the Melbourne central business district...
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    in the Melbourne central business district and a core feature of the Hoddle Grid. It was traditionally the entertainment hub of inner-city Melbourne,...
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  • areas with concentrations of theatres: the East End, situated in the Hoddle Grid, which contains many of Melbourne's historic theatres; and Southbank...
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    It was laid out in the first survey of Melbourne, the original 1837 Hoddle Grid, and soon became the most desired address in the city. Collins Street...
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    Hoddle Street), distinguishable with a wide reservation and tramway down the middle. Victoria Street touches the north-east corner of the Hoddle Grid...
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    main campus of RMIT is situated on the northern edge of the historic Hoddle Grid in the city centre of Melbourne. It has two satellite campuses in the...
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  • Melbourne suburbs Hoddle Bridge, Melbourne Hoddle Grid, streets in central Melbourne Hoddle Highway, urban highway in Melbourne Hoddle railway station,...
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    Victoria, Australia. It was laid out in 1837 as part of the original Hoddle Grid. The street vertically bisects Melbourne's city centre and is famous...
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    government requisitioned the house for government offices. In 1837, the Hoddle Grid, the first town plan was designed with Batman's Hill as its western boundary...
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    district, Victoria, Australia. The street forms part of the original Hoddle Grid and was laid out in 1837. It runs roughly north-south and is primarily...
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    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...
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    street runs roughly north–south and was laid out as part of the original Hoddle Grid. Situated in the east of the Melbourne central business district, Exhibition...
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    to Victoria Street, and was laid out in 1837 as part of the original Hoddle Grid. The street is located in-between King Street and Queen Street. Notable...
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    the largest in Australia and the 33rd largest in the world. The Hoddle Grid, a grid of streets measuring approximately 1 by 1⁄2 mi (1.61 by 0.80 km)...
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    states and territories. Located on Spring Street on the edge of the Hoddle Grid, the grand colonnaded front dominates the vista up Bourke Street. Construction...
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  • working theatre. 28 March - The Hoddle Grid of streets for the central business district is surveyed by Robert Hoddle. 1 June - First inner-city land...
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    precincts, which are located on a gentle hill at the edge of the Melbourne's Hoddle Grid, known as Eastern Hill. The world-famous Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)...
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    to the north. Nevertheless, in 1837, government surveyor Robert Hoddle laid out a grid of streets, approximately 30 metres wide (considerably wider than...
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    It runs roughly north-south and was laid out as a core feature of the Hoddle Grid in 1837. Russell Street is named after John Russell, British Home Secretary...
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    The street was gazetted in 1837 as the westernmost boundary of the Hoddle Grid. Spencer Street is named for John Spencer, former Chancellor of the Exchequer...
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    rarely both) is approximately one furlong in length. City blocks in the Hoddle Grid of Melbourne are also one furlong in length. Salt Lake City's blocks...
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    The Melbourne central business district, defined by a grid of streets known as the Hoddle Grid, has a historically low central shopping area with high...
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    nightclubs, restaurants, and adult entertainment venues. Part of the original Hoddle Grid laid out in 1837, the road has become a main traffic thoroughfare connecting...
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    district, Australia, part of the Hoddle Grid laid out in 1837. Market Street is the only major deviation to the Hoddle Grid, in that it only runs between...
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    Melbourne central business district, Victoria, Australia, part of the Hoddle Grid laid out in 1837. It is presumed to have been named in honour of governor...
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    Melbourne central business district runs roughly east–west within the Hoddle Grid. It is a one-way street heading in a westward direction. The street intersects...
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