Scoresby

Scoresby is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 29 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, situated inside the City of Knox nearby government territory. Scoresby recorded a populace of 6,022 at the 2016 Census. In the Parish arrangement of Victoria principally utilized with land-possession records the nearby ward is called Scoresby, a piece of the County of Mornington. The zone of Scoresby was studied in 1857, and named after the Arctic adventurer William Scoresby.

Scoresby had passed on the earlier year, not long after his visit to the province to explore different avenues regarding earthly attraction close to the region which currently conveys his name. A township created during the 1870s around the convergence of Stud Road and Ferntree Gully Road. A school was set up in 1872, trailed by a Methodist church. When the swampy ground was depleted, advertise gardens were built up. Scoresby Post Office opened on 20 January 1890, shut in 1979 and revived in 1984 as the suburb grew.

Following the First World War, George Hodges Knox settled and built up a plantation in Scoresby. He later turned into an individual from Parliament, and was knighted. The City of Knox is named after him. The rural area has an Australian Rules football group, The Scoresby Magpies, contending in the Eastern Football League. Scoresby Cricket Club are additionally situated in the suburb of Scoresby, contending in the Ringwood and District Cricket Association, and play their home recreations out of Exner Reserve.