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Layer Id 1529 Name Grimes Alley
Description

Now known as Bourke Lane or Bourke Place.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 573-577 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Charles Grimes, Surveyor.

Location is approximate.

For more information, see: Bate, W., Broome, R., Davis, N., May, A. J., & Stitt, H. (2024). The story of Melbourne’s lanes: Essential but unplanned (pp. 57, 183). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

 Type Placename
Linkback https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01826b.htm Temporal From 1856-01-01
Created At 2024-07-12 15:50:14 Updated At 2025-01-21 13:44:23
Ghap Url https://tlcmap.org/layers/1529
Statistic Value Unit
Total Places
2 -
Area
Not Available km2
Convex Hull
LINESTRING(144.95584749393424 -37.81564950374702,144.95568044765434 -37.81530677053429) -
Centroid
POINT(144.9557639707943 -37.81547813714066) -
Bounding Box
POLYGON((144.95568044765434 -37.81564950374702,144.95568044765434 -37.81530677053429,144.95584749393424 -37.81530677053429,144.95584749393424 -37.81564950374702,144.95568044765434 -37.81564950374702)) -
Most Central Place
Grimes Alley south end -
Most Distant Place from center
Grimes Alley north end off Little Bourke Street -
Distribution
  • Average Distance from Centroid: 0.020392795315
  • Average Distance from Centroid / Area of Convex Hull: N/A
 kilometers