Oak Park

Oak Park is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km north-west of Melbourne's focal business locale. Its neighborhood government territory is the City of Moreland. At the 2016 Census, Oak Park had a populace of 6,205. Oak Park is limited by New Road, Victoria Street, Kiama Street and Charlotte Street in the north, Watt Avenue and Pascoe Vale Road in the east, Moonee Ponds Creek in the west and Main Street in the south.

Oak Park was shaped from part of the John Pascoe Fawkner bequest. The name of the territory got from the name picked by the buyers of the Fawkner Estate. Oak Park was moderately gradually created, as the zone did not have a railroad station until the point that lodging improvement had started during the 1950s. Oak Park Football Club, an Australian Rules football group, contends in the Essendon District Football League.

Therry Penola Football Club contend in the Victorian Amateur Football Association. St.Francis Junior Football Club contend in the Essendon District Football League. Oak Park is likewise served by the St Francis de Sales Cricket Club, based at Rayner Reserve, Forbes Grove, Oak Park. St Francis have 13 groups, 6 senior in the MMVCA and 7 junior in the NWCA and have been the victor of the Club Championship 5 of the previous 7 years. They are likely the greatest club in progress and numbers in the course of recent years.