Burwood Highway Toorak Road | |
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| Burwood Highway through Burwood East | |
  West end East end | |
| Coordinates | |
| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 29.7 km (18 mi)[3] |
| Gazetted | October 1913 (as Main Road)[1] 1959/60 (as State Highway)[2] |
| Route number(s) |
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| Former route number |  Metro Route 26 (1965–1998)(Upper Ferntree Gully–Belgrave) |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Toorak Road Hawthorn, Melbourne |
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| East end |  Monbulk Road Belgrave–Gembrook RoadBelgrave, Melbourne |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Burwood, Wantirna South, Ferntree Gully, Upwey |
| Highway system | |
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Burwood Highway (and its western section as Toorak Road) is a major transportation link with Melbourne's eastern fringe at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges, linking the suburbs of Hawthorn and Belgrave.[4] The highway is considered a major link for people who live in the Dandenong Ranges and acts as one of the major feeder roadway in the area along with Canterbury Road, Ferntree Gully Road, EastLink and Wellington Road.
- ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 5 November 1913. p. 4812. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
- ^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Seventh Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1960". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 21 November 1960. pp. 7–8.
- ^ "Burwood Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
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