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Maidstone is a suburb 8 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its local government area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the 2011 Census, Maidstone had a population of 7,750. Maidstone is a suburb of the City of Maribyrnong, located 8 km from the Melbourne CBD, bordered by West Footscray to the south on Suffolk Street, Braybrook to the west on Ashley St, Footscray to the east along Summerhill Road and Rosamond Road and Maribyrnong to the north and north-east along Williamson Road and Rosamond Road. ==History== Maidstone was established in 1858. It was given the name after the town of Maidstone in Kent, which is close to Footscray, named after Foots Cray, another town formerly in Kent. Maidstone Post Office opened on 1 October 1858 and closed in 1986. Maidstone was predominantly made up of period weatherboard, brick Art Deco and Californian Bungalow houses constructed between the 1920s and 1940s. Concrete houses built in the late 1940s to house the families of returned servicemen from World War II are also found. From the early 1990s many old factory sites in Maidstone have been turned into new housing estates comprising hundreds of houses and townhouses. Maidstone's recent development boost, good public transport availability and close proximity to the CBD has also seen the median house price escalate dramatically over the past 10 years. 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「Maidstone, Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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