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Werribee was established as an agricultural settlement in the 1850s, originally named Wyndham and later renamed Werribee (derived from the Aboriginal name meaning "backbone" or "spine") in 1904. The suburb is situated on its namesake the Werribee River , approximately halfway between Melbourne and Geelong , on the Princes Highway .
The City of Wyndham is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the outer south-western suburbs of Melbourne, within the Melbourne Metropolitan Area, between Melbourne and the regional city of Geelong. It has an area of 542 square kilometres (209 sq mi).
It covers the suburbs of Werribee, Wyndham Vale, and the rural areas surrounding these suburbs to the south and west. [3] Werribee was estimated to be a safe Labor seat with a margin of 11.4%, and was held by Labor with a further 4.2% swing towards them at the 2014 state election. [4]
Wyndham Vale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km (19 mi) south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, one of the fastest growing suburbs of Melbourne, located within the City of Wyndham local government area.
Werribee South is a locality in Victoria, Australia, 32 km (20 mi) southwest of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Werribee South recorded a population of 2,392 at the 2021 census. [1] Werribee South is a rural-urban suburb located just outside of the Melbourne metropolitan area. [2]
Howard Johnson by Wyndham, [7] still commonly referred to as Howard Johnson's, is an American hotel brand with over 200 hotels in 15 countries. [6] It was also formerly a restaurant chain, which at one time was the largest in the U.S., with more than 1,000 locations.
Wyndham Central College, formerly the Werribee Technical School and Galvin Park Secondary College (GPSC) is the former name of a government high school in the outer Melbourne suburb of Werribee, Victoria, Australia. In 2013, Galvin Park Secondary College was renamed Wyndham Central College.
Wyndham City Libraries provide a range of public library services at five branches in the Melbourne outer metropolitan City of Wyndham local government area. Its nine branch libraries are located at the Werribee Plaza shopping centre, in the Werribee city centre, at Point Cook Town Centre, and in Wyndham Vale and Tarneit and Williams Landing and Truganina near a neighborhood.