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Somerville is a township and coastal rural locality in Victoria, Australia, 53 km southeast from Melbourne's central business district, as a part of the urban enclave on Western Port comprising Somerville, Hastings, Bittern, Crib Point, and Tyabb. Its local government area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. At the 2011 Census, Somerville had a population of 10,730.〔 The size of Somerville is approximately 38 km². The population of Somerville in 2001 was 10,049 people. By 2006 the population was 10,704 showing a population growth of 7% in the area during that time. Originally an orchard town Somerville has experienced significant population growth over the last twenty years. It is served by Somerville railway station on the Stony Point Line, as well as a bus service to Frankston. (Yaringa Marina ), east of the township, offers boat access to Western Port. ==History== The township was once located on Lower Somerville Road, with several original buildings still there today. Somerville Post Office opened on 21 November 1870 and closed in 1893. The railway came to Somerville in September 1889,〔(VICSIG Infrastructure - Somerville )〕 the station was a mile or so from Lower Somerville Road and the town centre moved from there to its current site during the 1890s. Somerville Railway Station Post Office opened on 15 August 1890 and was renamed Somerville in 1907. in August. In August 2009 two teenagers burnt down the original station. The Somerville Hotel was built in the early 1900s as well as a Mechanics' Hall which formed part of the Station Street shopping strip. The north side of the station street lining the railway had historical buildings which were burnt down in 1987 as an act of vandalism. The town was known during the early 1900s up until WW2 for the fruit which was produced in its orchards. A harvest festival was held once a year and special trains ran from Flinders Street Station to the town during the festival. During the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s the town underwent a population boom with a number of housing estates created. The Somerville war memorial was unveiled on 4 November 1923 at the intersection of Frankston Flinders Road and Eramosa Road West. With the increasing population and traffic, the memorial was moved from this busy intersection to Clarinda Street in 1966.http://home.vicnet.net.au/~stdhs/somerville_war_memorial.html From November 2014 to April 2015 the memorial was moved from Clarinda Street to the Fruitgrowers Reserve. The cenotaph was restored with markers surrounding it telling the residents the history of the area. Trees were also planted surrounding the memorial remembering the lost soldiers. An avenue of honour was originally located on Eramosa Road East. The road was lined with plane trees in 1917. Each tree represented the men who fought in World War 1. These trees were removed by the local Shire and footpaths laid in their place. In early 2014 a new avenue of honour of ornamental pear trees was planted along Station Street. The Somerville Fruitgrowers Reserve once held annual festivals every year to celebrate the local fruit growers in the area. Following World War 2 the people of the area donated a period cannon to the community reserve. In recent years the local Shire sold this cannon for scrap. 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「Somerville, Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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