Croydon is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Maroondah City Council.

Croydon is the host suburub of the Maroondah Festival, which is held yearly in Croydon Park. Performers have included Kate Ceberano, Vanessa Amorosi, Paul Kelly, Johnny Diesel, Hunters and Collectors, Kisschasy and even a few international acts like Dido.

Swinburne TAFE has a campus in Croydon. Croydon contains one railway station, Croydon, on the Lilydale line. It is also the home of EV's Youth Centre, a long-standing local venue for all-ages live music events.

Burnt Bridge

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Burnt Bridge is an area within the Melbourne suburb of Croydon, in Victoria, Australia. It is named after the Burnt Bridge Hotel, which was operated by Elizabeth Moore and Lucy Dawson as early as the 1840s, and located along the Lilydale Trail, near the present day junction of Maroondah Highway and Old Lilydale Road. At the time of the hotels existence, the area was grazing land. Hotels in these times usually began as shanties, selling coffee to passing coaches, before gaining their liquor licences.

Although some historians have speculated that the name is derived from the Scottish word 'burn', meaning 'stream', it is more popularly believed to be derived from a bridge in the area which burnt down. The hotel was also known to locals as The Blazing Stump.

History

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Croydon was founded by a young lad by the name of David Stephensen and began as the home of Warrandyte Railway Station (since rebuilt as the current station). Travellers would travel by rail to (then unnamed) Croydon, and were then faced with a horse & coach ride to Warrandyte, which was not expected by many people. The station, along with the town that grew from it, was re-named Croydon, after Croydon, England.

External links

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• Maroondah City Council Official Website
• Maroondah Festival Official Website