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Yarra Park
Yarra Park
(35.469 hectares) is part of the
Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct
, the premier sporting precinct of
Victoria
,
Australia
. Located in Yarra Park is the
Melbourne Cricket Ground
(MCG) and numerous sporting fields and ovals, including the associated sporting complexes of
Melbourne & Olympic Parks
. The park and sporting facilities are located in the inner-suburb of
East Melbourne
. In the late 1850s, many of the
earliest games of Australian rules football
were played at Yarra Park, which was known at the time as the
Richmond Paddock
.
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