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Kingsbury is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km north-east from Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government area is the City of Darebin. At the 2011 Census, Kingsbury had a population of 3,362. The suburb was named after Bruce Kingsbury VC, who died in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War. Kingsbury is an established suburb with the majority of homes established in the 1960s from either weatherboard and brick. Recently there has been an increased number of new housing developments in the area with Kingsbury following close trend from neighbouring suburbs Reservoir and Preston largely due to the large block land size and close proximity to public transport and Melbourne CBD. The majority of street names are either named after previous past golfers or the golfing terms. The suburb of Kingsbury previously had a golf course running through it before being built over in the 1960s for new housing developments. ==History== Settlement of the area dates from the late 1830s, with land used mainly for farming. Growth took place from the late 1800s into the early 1900s. Significant development did not occur until the post-war years, particularly from the 1960s, spurred by the opening of La Trobe University in 1967. Kingsbury had a golf course and that stretched along the western side of the Darebin Creek in Creek Valley which has now been built over with housing estate The Kingsbury Bowls club located at Arch Gibson Reserve was formed in 1978. The club has a bronze statue of Kingsbury, one of only three which was presented by the 2nd and 14th battalion to Kingsbury Bowls Club and is a symbol of the clubs link to the war hero 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kingsbury, Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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