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Layer Id 1537 Name St Patricks Alley
Description

St Patricks Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 443-447 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: St Patrick's Hall, adjacent, 468 Bourke St.

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). 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/EM01980b.htm Temporal From 1856-01-01
Created At 2024-07-12 15:58:10 Updated At 2025-01-21 13:36:17
Ghap Url https://tlcmap.org/layers/1537
Statistic Value Unit
Total Places
2 -
Area
Not Available km2
Convex Hull
LINESTRING(144.95953993443206 -37.814218701272495,144.9597600238453 -37.81467227713973) -
Centroid
POINT(144.95964997913867 -37.81444548920611) -
Bounding Box
POLYGON((144.95953993443206 -37.81467227713973,144.95953993443206 -37.814218701272495,144.9597600238453 -37.814218701272495,144.9597600238453 -37.81467227713973,144.95953993443206 -37.81467227713973)) -
Most Central Place
St Patricks Alley north end entrance off Little Bourke Street -
Most Distant Place from center
St Patricks Alley north end entrance off Little Bourke Street -
Distribution
  • Average Distance from Centroid: 0.02697248722
  • Average Distance from Centroid / Area of Convex Hull: N/A
kilometers