Batman's Hill

A salt lagoon and piece of marsh will make a beautiful meadow and bounded on the south by the river.

Growing traffic lead to an expansion of the freight sheds in 1863, with a contract being signed in November that year for the removal of the hill.

[8] The site now forms the eastern border of the Docklands (a precinct of the Docklands development is also named Batman's Hill) and is dominated by Southern Cross station and the Collins Street bridge built in 2002 to replicate the original curve and shape of the hill.

[9] A significant portion of Batman's Hill is now being developed by the Walker Group as a commercial office precinct called Collins Square.

Robert Hoddle used Batman's Hill as the datum for the cadastral survey of the land around Melbourne from 1837.

The linear property boundaries, in the absence of pre-existing tracks, were natural locations for major roads.

Illustration depicting the changes to Batman's Hill between 1840 and 1892
Looking south-west from the Collins Street Bridge towards the site of Batman's Hill in 2007. The blue post marking the hill can be seen to the left
Robert Hoddle's survey of the town of Melbourne in 1837. Batman's Hill–bottom left–is the datum