Warranwood is a suburb in Melbourne

Melbourne

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, Victoria

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, Australia

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, 27 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district

Melbourne city centre

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. Its Local Government Area is the City of Maroondah. At the 2006 Census, Warranwood had a population of 4593.

Etymology

Warranwood is situated on the border of Warrandyte South and Ringwood; its name is a conjunction of the two words.

Education

Two schools are situated in Warranwood. Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School on Wonga Road, and Warranwood Primary School on Wellington Park Drive.

Warranwood Primary was formerly known as Warrandyte South Primary, and relocated to its current location in Term 2, 1996.

See also

• City of Doncaster & Templestowe
  City of Doncaster & Templestowe
  The City of Doncaster & Templestowe was a Local Government Area located about east-northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1915 until 1994...
  
  - the former local government area of which Warranwood was a part.