Ringwood East

Ringwood East is a residential suburb 25 km east of Melbourne. Its name derives from that of Ringwood.

Early European settlement points in Ringwood East were the Burnt Bridge Hotel on the Maroondah Highway in the 1860s, the Club Hotel at the corner of Mount Dandenong Road and Maroondah Highway (1877), and an antimony mine on the site of the future civic offices. The mine ceased in 1892. Burnt Bridge was named after a surveyor formed a rough corduroy construction on the Melbourne to Healesville/Gippsland track (later the Maroondah Highway) in 1857.