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Kylie Minogue finds her cache here too! Traditional Geocache

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Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Maling Road is a popular shopping strip in Canterbury, Victoria, Australia. Very busy and loaded with Muggles...thus the rating of 2.5 - cache muggled once; this is the new hide; a NEXT! specialty.

Maling Road contains over fifty Edwardian-style shops in a pseudo-village setting. The strip was originally built over one hundred years ago; its location was chosen due to its proximity to Canterbury railway station.


Maling Road contains over fifty Edwardian-style shops in a pseudo-village setting. The strip was originally built over one hundred years ago; its location was chosen due to its proximity to Canterbury railway station.


Canterbury is an older residential suburb 10 km. east of Melbourne, noted for spacious residences. It adjoins Camberwell on its east and north , and its early settlement and subdivision into market gardens and orchards accompanied Camberwell's. Canterbury was named after Viscount Canterbury, Governor of Victoria, 1866-73. Before being named Canterbury the area was part of Balwyn.

When the railway was extended from Hawthorn to Camberwell in 1882. and to Canterbury and beyond the following Veal residential subdivisions were stimulated The Canterbury landscape was undulating, elevated to the east and, with the West Creek, pleasantly well watered The late 1880s saw hood land prices and speculative profit. Melbourne merchants and professionals built in Canterbury and commuted by train to Melbourne. By 1891 nearly all of Canterbury was subdivided for housing. but still mostly not built on A shopping strip was built along Maling Road beside the railway station. There was also a bicycle rubber factory and brickworks, although two years later the local Council banned quarrying.

The population of Canterbury by 1903 was about 1,000, too much for the Camberwell or the distant Balwyn primary schools, and local representations resulted in a primary school being opened in 1908. Secondary schools in Canterbury which were opened were the Camberwell Church of England Girls' Grammar School (1920), Camberwell (boys) Grammar School (1886) Strathcona Baptist Girls' Grammar School, and, much later, the Canterbury Girls' Secondary College which in due course was seen as a rival to MacRobertson Girls' High School The Camberwell High School is also in Canterbury

During pre-war years the Canterbury shopping centre was well served by district bus services. By the 1960s the services had diminished, and the Canterbury Road part of the shopping centre was perceived to be a haven for second-hand retailing and therefore in decline. Maling Road was also in the doldrums, but by the 1970s it was undergoing renewal as a destination for gift shops and pleasant eateries. It was later successfully promoted as a tourist destination.

Canterbury's large nineteenth century houses have provided premises for several nursing homes, benevolent organisations and a war time RAAF centre "Frognall" (located at 54 Mont Albert Rd), which was returned to private ownerships in the 1990s.

In and around Canterbury there are numerous retail and small businesses dealing in home furnishing and decoration, which reflect residents' fascination with keeping the Victorian or Edwardian appearance of their houses and gardens. In Monomeath Avenue, noted for its homes and gracious landscape, several residents in 1995 successfully resisted a proposed multi-unit development on a home site sold by a former Premier of Victoria.



Pop singer Kylie Minogue grew up nearby and owns several stores along the road. You now know what she did with her cache, so where’s ours?!

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Snxr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)