Notting Hill

Notting Hill is a small residential and commercial suburb 18 km south-east of Melbourne, between Mount Waverley and Clayton North. Its traditional centre is at the corner of Ferntree Gully Road and Gardiner Road. The area is more a plateau than a hill, and is the site of two local water storages. A settler, Thomas Wilkinson, is generally accepted as giving the area its name because of his association with Notting Hill in London. He was a carrier between Oakleigh and Ferntree Gully and in the late 1870s opened a refreshment stop at Notting Hill, 4 km from Oakleigh.