Reservoir

Reservoir is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km north of Melbourne's Central Business District. Its nearby government zone is the City of Darebin. At the 2016 Census, Reservoir had a populace of 50,474. Reservoir is the biggest suburb in Melbourne via arrive region. Reservoir is a built up suburb with standard block homes, weatherboard homes, and an expanding number of new improvements. The locale contains well known amusement zones and offices, including Edwardes Lake and the Reservoir Leisure Center, and is home to the Edwardes Street and Broadway shopping strips.

The land which turned into the suburb of Reservoir was first reviewed by Robert Hoddle in 1837 and was shaped from parts of both the Jika Parish and Keelbundoora Parish. The Rose Shamrock Hotel opened on Plenty Road in 1854. Reservoir Post Office opened around 1921. Reservoir turned into a suburb as of now with the name originating from the three water reservoirs initially implicit 1863, all in all known as Preston Reservoir, which keep on shaping piece of the crisp water to Melbourne's inward and western suburbs.

In 1914 Thomas Dyer Edwardes gave a region of 34 sections of land of land to the general population of the previous City of Preston. This land was created into Edwardes Lake Park. Between 1919 and 1939 swimming was authoritatively allowed with the nearness of the Preston Lifesaving Club and normal exhibitions of swimming and lifesaving methods amid this time.