Mount Waverley

Mount Waverley is a residential suburb 15 km south-east of central Melbourne. Its area extends eastwards from Huntingdale Road to Glen Waverley. In 1853 a privately surveyed township was laid out at the south-east corner of High Street Road and Stephenson’s Road, named by its owner after Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. The site rises from a deep valley to the south, the rise being sufficient for the appellation of Mount. St Stephen’s Anglican church was opened to the west of Stephenson’s Road in 1865, the first in the Waverley district.