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17-764: [REDACTED] Look up bentleigh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bentleigh may refer to: Bentleigh, Victoria , Australia; a suburb of Melbourne Bentleigh railway station Electoral district of Bentleigh , Victoria, Australia Bentleigh Football Netball Club , of the SFNL, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Bentleigh Secondary College , Bentleigh East, Victoria, Australia See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Bentleigh" on Misplaced Pages. Bentleigh East, Victoria , Australia;

34-457: A suburb of Melbourne Bentleigh West Primary School , Glen Eira, Victoria, Australia All pages with titles beginning with Bentleigh All pages with titles containing Bentleigh Bentley (disambiguation) Bently (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bentleigh . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

51-624: Is a Catholic girls secondary school located on the corner of Jasper Road and Patterson Road. It was founded in 1938 by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart . ^ = territory divided with another LGA Bentleigh West Primary School Bentleigh West Primary School is a government primary school located in the suburb of Bentleigh in the City of Glen Eira , about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) out of Melbourne 's city centre, in

68-635: Is a weekly market next to the train station. There is also Patterson road shopping centre that has a café, two coffee shops, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, a newsagent, a supermarket, a bakery, an organic green grocer, a fishmonger, a travel agent, a pizza shop, a nail technician, a violin maker, a remedial massage centre and three hairdressers. Its schools are Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Bentleigh West Primary School , and St. Paul's Primary School. Recreational facilities were developed at Halley Park around 1994. In 2021

85-490: Is the biggest in the area, of over 250 retail businesses, and convenient car parking. The shopping centre has a focus on fresh food, continental delis and cake shops, restaurants and cafes. It has bank branches, fashion and shoe shops, doctors surgeries, dentists and other medical services, an independent bookshop, a newsagent, a toy shop and three supermarkets. It has other services like hairdressers, picture framers, op shops for second-hand retail, and an interior decorator. There

102-471: The City of Glen Eira local government area . Bentleigh recorded a population of 17,921 at the 2021 census . Within Bentleigh is the unbounded locality of Patterson. Neighbouring suburbs include Bentleigh East, Brighton East, Moorabbin and McKinnon. Formerly known as East Brighton, the area was renamed Bentleigh in 1908 after Victorian Premier, Sir Thomas Bent This brought the suburb name in line with

119-501: The ' Level Crossing Removal Project ' initiative. Boom gates no longer occupy the road crossing, as the tracks have been modified to pass underneath. The station has been upgraded to a more modern look. Bentleigh is also serviced by two bus services . The 703 is a SmartBus service which runs from Middle Brighton to Blackburn through Bentleigh's main shopping strip Centre Road. The 701 service starts from Bentleigh railway station and terminates at Oakleigh railway station . As part of

136-699: The Bentleigh Library closed to be redeveloped. In the 2016 Census, there were 16,153 people in Bentleigh. 61.6% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were China 5.6%, England 3.4%, India 2.8%, New Zealand 1.9% and Greece 1.5%. 67.2% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 6.4%, Greek 4.2%, Russian 2.8%, Italian 2.1% and Cantonese 1.1%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 34.4% and Catholic 23.2%. Bentleigh has two railway stations, Bentleigh and Patterson ;

153-503: The Centre Road shops. St. Paul's Primary School is a Catholic coeducational primary school located in Bentleigh on Jasper Road it is next to a Church with the same name. Established in 1928, it was managed by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart until 1993. Catherine Tammesild is the current principal. Bentleigh West is a state coeducational Primary school located on Brewer Road. Our Lady of Sacred Heart College (OLSH)

170-597: The State Government's $ 10.5 billion transport plan the 701 service has been upgraded and the operating hours expanded to run seven-days-a-week for the first time. Bentleigh is home to several murals and public art installations. The most notable is a 150 square metre wall of mosaics outside Patterson Station called Stationary Faces, installed by artist Pamela Irving in 2012. Since 2018, the Glen Eira City Council has been commissioning murals near

187-477: The former is the end of Zone 1 on the Frankston line . The level crossing at Bentleigh railway station was upgraded in 2006 at a cost of A$ 1.2 million and included sirens as well as bells, red man lights, 'Another Train is Coming' lights and latches on the emergency exit. This was after several fatal accidents at the crossing involving pedestrians. In 2016, the level crossing was upgraded once again as part of

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204-559: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bentleigh&oldid=1251008686 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bentleigh, Victoria Bentleigh is a suburb in Melbourne , Australia, 13 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District , located within

221-486: The name of the local railway station. The first Post Office in the area opened on 1 July 1865 as Jasper Road. After the railway arrived it moved to near the station in 1882 and was named Brighton East. A Patterson Post Office opened in 1948. In 1961 it was renamed Patterson West when a new Patterson office opened near the railway station. Bentleigh is home to Alnutt Park, Victory Park, Halley Park, and Bentleigh Memorial Gardens. The strip shopping centre along Centre Road

238-813: The other side of the line. Major building works were finished in late 2010. As of 2020 the principal is Steven Capp. It has been awarded the Australian Sustainable Schools Accreditation 5 Star Award, the Water Wise Accreditation, the Water - Learn it! Live it! accreditation, and was 2005 Regional Winner of the State Gardens Award. The school was one of ten selected for a "greening grant in May 2005" from Greening Australia . In 2007

255-650: The school was recognised for its efforts in the Education Programs category of the Savewater! Awards. In the 2015 ResourceSmart Education Awards, Bentleigh West won ResourceSmart Water School of the Year, and was a finalist in both the Community Leadership category and overall School of the Year. In addition, Mrs Brown was also nominated as Teacher of the Year. Leonie Brown, who co-ordinates

272-610: The school's environmental program, was chosen from 2,400 teachers to win one of the Australian Scholarships Group Community Merit Awards 2005. Sarah Asome won the Outstanding Primary Teacher Award at the 2015 Victorian Education Excellence Awards, for her work in the area of dyslexia . Student Theodore Petrakos won one of four 2006 Victorian School Sports Awards. The school was a finalist in

289-410: The state of Victoria, Australia . The school has won a number of environmental awards. As of 2020 the principal is Steven Capp. The school was established in the 1930s and named Bentleigh West, despite the lack of a suburb of that name, as it was considered more fashionable to live on the western side of Bentleigh (west of the Frankston railway line ), closer to Brighton East and Brighton than

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