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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Malvern is a
suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km south-east from
Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the
City of Stonnington. At the 2006 Census, Malvern had a population of
9,422.The area of Malvern was first settled in 1835.John Gardiner was
one of its first settlers. A small hamlet known as "Gardiners Creek"
(1851 Melbourne Postal Directory) was settled but it diminished with the
gold rush. The nearby creek was also named Gardiners Creek. Gardiners
Creek Road (now Toorak Road) ran from South Yarra, east to the junction
of Gardiners Creek and onto the Gardiner Homestead which is now the site
of Scotch College.
