Syndal is a Locality in the

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suburbs of

Glen Waverley Glen Waverley is an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located southeast of the Melbourne central business district. It is the council seat of the City of Monash local government area and a prominent suburban commercial distric ...

and

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around the intersection of High Street Road and Blackburn Road. It is in the

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of the

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. From the intersection down to

Syndal railway station Syndal railway station is a commuter railway station on the Glen Waverley line, which is part of the Railways in Melbourne, Melbourne railway network. It serves the south-eastern suburb of Glen Waverley, Victoria, Glen Waverley, in Melbourne, V ...

on Coleman Parade, is the Syndal Shopping Centre. This strip is a highly populated commercial area encompassing a number of diverse local interest stores including several take-away food shops, a laundromat, a bridal store, a dry cleaner and many others in between. The commercial area is renowned for many long established specialist businesses. The intersection used to have three petrol stations, three banks (the

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, the

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, and

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), and two supermarkets including Schultz's supermarket owned and run by the

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winner John Schultz and his brother Robert Schultz. Today, Syndal has no banks, petrol stations, or supermarkets. At one point in time there were five schools, three primary schools and two secondary schools, containing the name Syndal – The former schools of

Syndal High School Syndal High School (also known as Syndal Secondary School) was a public secondary school located in Glen Waverley, Victoria, Australia. History With rapid postwar population growth to the east of Melbourne, various State and Federal Governme ...

, Syndal Technical School, and Syndal Primary School, and the continuing Syndal North Primary School (now Mount Waverley North Primary School), and Syndal South Primary School. Syndal has a nominated

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postal office, although Syndal is still part of the greater

and

suburbs, and shares the same

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as Mount Waverley, 3149, or Glen Waverley, 3150. Syndal was originally the name of a farm owned by

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on High Street Road, which was purchased off Barry by the Coleman family who consolidated a number of farms at the time. The name for the locality was reclaimed in 1930 when the

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was opened and the name for the station at Blackburn Road and Coleman Parade had to be decided. The centre of the Syndal locality, and the original Syndal property is on High Street Road, west of the Blackburn Road intersection.

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{{reflist Localities of Melbourne Glen Waverley, Victoria