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	'''Glass Creek''' is a watercourse running through northern [[Boroondara]]. It is now almost entirely an underground creek, having been redirected through drains as residential development of the area took place.		'''Glass Creek''' is a watercourse running through northern [[Boroondara]]. It is now almost entirely an underground creek, having been redirected through drains as residential development of the area took place.

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	*Jacka Street Reserve		*[[Jacka Street Reserve]]
	*[[Gordon Barnard Reserve]]		*[[Gordon Barnard Reserve]]
	*[[Hislop Park]]		*[[Hislop Park]]
	*[[Macleay Park\|Macleay/Myrtle Park]]		*[[Macleay Park\|Macleay/Myrtle Park]]
	*Stradbroke Park		*[[Stradbroke Park]]
	*Hays Paddock		*[[Hays Paddock]]
	*Kew Billabong Reserve		*[[Kew Billabong Reserve]]

	== History ==		== History ==

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'''Glass Creek''' is a watercourse running through northern [[Boroondara]]. It is now almost entirely an underground creek, having been redirected through drains as residential development of the area took place.

== Etymology ==
The creek was named after [[Hugh Glass]], a land speculator in the early history of Melbourne, in 1844. It was originally referred to as Glass' Creek but the spelling gradually fell out of use in favour of the present-day Glass Creek.<ref>Serle, Geoffrey; Nairn, Beded; Ward, Russell. ''Glass, Hugh (1817-1871)''. Melbourne University Press. Carlton: 1972.</ref><ref name=HaysPaddockMasterPlan>{{cite web|title=Hays Paddock Master Plan|url=http://www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/~/media/Files/Imported/H/Hays%20Master%20Plan%20Web%20Optimized_1.pdf|publisher=City of Boroondara|accessdate=20 September 2014}}</ref>

== Geography ==
=== Settlements ===
The creek passes through two suburbs:
*[[Kew East]]
*[[Balwyn North]]

=== Parklands ===
Much of the former creek route is now open parkland:

*Jacka Street Reserve
*[[Gordon Barnard Reserve]]
*[[Hislop Park]]
*[[Macleay Park|Macleay/Myrtle Park]]
*Stradbroke Park
*Hays Paddock
*Kew Billabong Reserve

== History ==
In the early [[wikipedia:History of Melbourne|history of Melbourne]] and during the indigenous settlement of the area, Glass Creek ran at-surface through what was then bushland. William Oswin is the first recorded owner of the land where [[Hays Paddock]] and Glass Creek flows into the Yarra on a property known as Kilby Farm.<ref name=HaysPaddockMasterPlan/> The first proposal to route the creek underground in its northern section was put forward by the [[City of Kew]] town clerk, W.D.Birrell, in 1943, but the project was not pursued.<ref name=HaysPaddockMasterPlan/> The exact date of the rest of the creek's re-routing through the underground drainage system is unknown, but a [[Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works]] map from the 1960s shows the creek entering the present-day drain near the southern entrance of Hays Paddock.<ref name=MMBWmap>Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. ''Municipalities of Box Hill, Camberwell, Collingwood, Hawthorn, Heidelberg, Doncaster and Templestowe, Kew & Richmond''. Melbourne:1960, http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/map_item.pl</ref>

=== Route ===
[[File:Original Route of Glass Creek.PNG|thumb|The original route of Glass Creek through North Balwyn and East Kew before it was placed underground some time in the 1960s.|center|700px]]
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The original route of the creek originated near Loma Linda Grove in Greythorn, the eastern part of Balwyn North. It flowed through present-day Jacka Street and Gordon Barnard Reserves, crossed Balwyn Road, through [[Hislop Park|Hislop]] and [[Macleay Park|Macleay/Myrtle Park]], through the residential areas roughly following Maylands Avenue, through Stradbroke Park near present-day [[Kew High School]], under High Street and along the present-day Glass Creek Trail before joining up to the current course near the southern entrance to Hays Paddock. Thence it flowed north-west into the Yarra River.<ref name=CollinsDirectory>Collins Book Depot. ''Collins' Melbourne and suburban street directory''. Melbourne:1936.</ref>

== References ==
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==See also==
*[[Glass Creek]]

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[[Category:Rivers]]

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	*[[~~Glass~~ Creek]]		*[[W Creek]]

	{{Balwyn}}		{{Balwyn}}

	[[Category:Rivers]]		[[Category:Rivers]]

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