Syndal

Syndal, formerly a residential suburb and now a locality, is 18 km south-east of Melbourne between Mount Waverley and Glen Waverley. The name was given to the locality when the railway line to Glen Waverley was opened in 1930, and the name for the station to be built at Blackburn Road was undecided. The Mulgrave shire president persuaded the Victorian Railways that Syndal was appropriate, it having been the name of a model farm and orchard owned by Judge Sir Redmond Barry between 1868 and his death in 1880.