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Glen Ferrie
Peter Ferrie's property on the Glenferrie Road/Toorak Road hill in the 1840s gave its name to the road which led to it.
Gardiner Ward
Gardiner Ward takes its name from John Gardiner, the first white settler in the Boroondara parish.
Studley
This name is associated with John Hodgson, the Kew pioneer responsible for the establishment of the Studley Punt in the 1840s. The punt took traffic across the river into land which was part of his squatting run known as Studley.

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Robert Hoddle surveyed the area in the same year, and named it the 'Parish of Boroondara' from the Woiwurrung language, meaning 'where the ground is thickly shaded'. Due to the large amount of trees and wood available, Boroondara was a prime area for timber farming.
Until the 1850s settlers used the land for grazing, being 'light sandy country, timbered with gum and oak'.
Despite this, the farms produced fruit, hay and vegetables aplenty,

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The area was originally part of the hunting grounds of a Wurundjeri clan of the Woiwurrung people, but in 1837, John Gardiner and his family settled here, becoming the first Europeans to do so.