Notting Hill is a small suburb 19 km south-east of Melbourne’s CBD, sitting within the City of Monash between Clayton and Mount Waverley. Nearly half the suburb is occupied by industrial premises and the Monash Business Park, while the tight-knit Westerfield Estate remains a genuine village in character — renewed in recent years by the arrival of young families and students drawn to the area by the university’s gravitational pull. The Notting Hill Hotel, established in 1891, remains the suburb’s most visible landmark and social anchor.
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History
The area takes its name from a European settler, Thomas Wilkinson, who in the late 1870s opened a refreshment stop along Ferntree Gully Road — the main thoroughfare between Mulgrave shire and Oakleigh — and named it after his association with the Notting Hill district of London. The land had attracted a relatively high density of farms given its position along a busy route. By 1920 the area supported dairy and poultry farms and market gardens, and local families successfully agitated for a school, which opened in 1927. The Mulgrave Shire offices were transferred from Oakleigh to Notting Hill in 1920, remaining until 1955 when the growing area of Glen Waverley was chosen as the site for larger premises.
The residential heart of the suburb — the Westerfield Estate — was developed by A.V. Jennings from the late 1950s as the company’s first planned suburb, with no through roads and easy pedestrian access to local shops and schools. The Monash Freeway was built along the suburb’s edge in the 1980s and Monash University, founded in 1958 and now one of Australia’s largest and most highly ranked universities, adjoins Notting Hill’s southern boundary along Wellington Road.
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Notting Hill
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Notting Hill Hotel (The Nott)
The Notting Hill Hotel on Ferntree Gully Road has been a cornerstone of the suburb since 1891, and today it functions as a sprawling social venue that draws a broad cross-section of locals, tradies and university students. The steakhouse restaurant, outdoor beer garden, sports bar, pool tables, darts lanes and a regular programme of live music make it one of the more complete pub experiences in Melbourne’s south-east. It is the kind of place that anchors a community, and one of the suburb’s defining landmarks.
Monash University Clayton Campus
Monash University’s Clayton campus adjoins Notting Hill’s southern boundary and is open to the public. The park-like grounds are a pleasure to walk through in their own right, with generous tree cover, public artworks, a campus lake and the Jock Marshall Reserve at the heart of it. Monash regularly hosts public lectures, exhibitions and events across its faculties, and the campus library and student precinct provide further access points for those with academic interests. Named after General Sir John Monash, the university consistently ranks among Australia’s top institutions and in the global top 100.
Jock Marshall Reserve & Boardwalk
Within the Monash University campus sits the Jock Marshall Reserve — a three-hectare ecological sanctuary established in 1961 by Professor Jock Marshall, the Foundation Chair of Zoology and an early environmental campaigner who advocated for the campus’s characteristic native plantings. The reserve holds the only remnant indigenous vegetation on campus and functions as an active research facility for the School of Biological Sciences. The AILA award-winning elevated boardwalk, added in 2016, spans the reserve’s southern boundary and provides public access via Blackburn Road, winding above a flourishing ecosystem of native birds, fish, dragonflies and aquatic life. It is an unexpectedly serene walk minutes from the suburb’s industrial edges.
Westerfield Drive Reserve
At the heart of the historic Westerfield Estate, Westerfield Drive Reserve was upgraded in 2022 with a sensory-focused playground designed to engage children through multiple senses — a xylophone, water pump, trampoline, mirrored bird sculpture, optical illusion flowers, a community garden and an insect hotel. The Notting Hill Neighbourhood House sits immediately next door, serving as a community hub for the estate’s residents. It is a small but thoughtfully designed space that reflects the strong community spirit the Westerfield Estate has maintained since its earliest days.
Westerfield Drive Reserve
At the heart of the historic Westerfield Estate, Westerfield Drive Reserve was upgraded in 2022 with a sensory-focused playground designed to engage children through multiple senses — a xylophone, water pump, trampoline, mirrored bird sculpture, optical illusion flowers, a community garden and an insect hotel. The Notting Hill Neighbourhood House sits immediately next door, serving as a community hub for the estate’s residents. It is a small but thoughtfully designed space that reflects the strong community spirit the Westerfield Estate has maintained since its earliest days.
Mulgrave Farmers Market
A short drive from Notting Hill, the Mulgrave Farmers Market has operated every Sunday morning since 2009 at Mulgrave Primary School in Gladeswood Drive. Stalls offer fresh seasonal produce, eggs, honey, artisan pastries, specialty foods and a range of hot food vendors. The market runs from 8am to 12:30pm and is a well-regarded weekly fixture for residents across the City of Monash. Dogs are welcome, and the school playground alongside the market is a bonus for families with young children.
Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh)
A short drive east along Ferntree Gully Road in Wheelers Hill, the Museum of Australian Photography — formerly known as the Monash Gallery of Art — is Australia’s dedicated home of photography and one of the region’s finest public galleries. Set in beautiful grounds with a reflective pond, maturing eucalypts and outdoor sculpture, MAPh hosts major changing exhibitions year-round alongside the prestigious Bowness Photography Prize, one of Australia’s leading contemporary photography awards. Free entry. Open Tuesday to Thursday and Saturday to Sunday.
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