Hoddle Grid
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A ~180 degree panoramic image of the eastern side of Melbourne's Hoddle Grid, the original CBD (or "the city"), and
the new CBD area of Southbank, on the right side. Photographed from the Rialto Observation Deck
Specifications
All major streets are one and half chains
(99 ft or 30 m) in width, while all blocks
are exactly 10 chains square (10 acres,
201 m × 201 m). It is one mile (1.6 km)
long by half a mile wide (0.80 km). The
grid's longest axis is oriented 70 degrees
clockwise from true north, to align
better with the course of the Yarra River.
The majority of Melbourne
is oriented at 8 degrees
clockwise from true north noting that magnetic north
was 8° 3' E in 1900,
increasing to 11° 42' E in
2009.[1]
This includes Strathalbyn St
as Illustrated