Thomastown
17km north of Melbourne’s CBD, Thomastown came into existence in 1848 when the Thomas family bought the land north of Melbourne for market gardening.
Thomastown has a strip shopping centre in High Street parallel to the railway station, a shopping centre corner of Edgars Road and Main Street and shops on Settlement Road and Dalton Road, plus various shopping strips east of the train station.The Galada Tamboore Path to the west and the Western Ring Road Trail to the south provide facilities for recreational and commuting cyclists. Edgars Creek and the Edgars Creek Trail runs along a linear park which is next to a reserve with ovals.
