Somerville, Victoria

Somerville, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Somerville
city = Melbourne
state = vic


caption =
lga = Shire of Mornington Peninsula
postcode = 3912
pop =
area =
est =
propval = $255,000 [ [http://www.domain.com.au/public/suburbprofile.aspx?suburb=Somerville&postcode=3912 Somerville] , accessed 27 November 2006]
stategov = Hastings
fedgov = Flinders
dist1 = 53
location1= Melbourne
dist2 = 12
location2= Frankston
near-nw = Baxter
near-n =
near-ne = Pearcedale
near-w = Moorooduc
near-e =
near-sw =
near-s = Tyabb
near-se =

Somerville is a town on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. It is served by Somerville railway station on the Stony Point greater-metropolitan line.

History

Somerville was once an area full of orchards but has recently been suburbanised.

Somerville Post Office opened on 21 November 1870 and closed in 1893. Somerville Railway Station Post Office opened on 15 August 1890 and was renamed Somerville in 1907.Citation | last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | accessdate = 2008-04-11 ]

Today

The Mechanics Hall is a popular venue for local bands to play.

chools

Three Primary Schools and a Junior High School can be found in Somerville. The three primary schools are Somerville Rise Primary School, Somerville Primary School (both government schools) and St Brendans Primary School (a private school). SRPS has a jade green and navy blue uniform, SPS has a blue and gold uniform and St Brendans has a light blue and maroon uniform. The junior high school is a campus of Mount Erin College (a government school), so has the same uniform as Frankston Campus: light blue, navy blue and white.

port

Somerville is home to many junior and senior sporting teams, including the Somerville cricket and football clubs (The town has a football team competing in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League), Westernport Basketball Association and also a tennis club.

Adjacent stations

* Tyabb

References

* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/AS/7/Somerville.html FallingRain Map - elevation = 1m (Red dots are railways)]

External links

* http://www.somerville-rise-ps.vic.edu.au/
* http://www.somervilleps.vic.edu.au/


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