{"id":20930,"count":1,"description":"St Andrews is a town in Victoria, Australia, 36\u00a0km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Nillumbik. At the 2006 Census, St Andrews had a population of 1537.\nSt Andrews is well known for its alternative market which is open every Saturday from 8am to 2pm. It also contains a school, bakery, CFA and community centre.\nOriginally called Queenstown, the area was surveyed in 1858 and a town proclaimed on the 25th February 1861.\nSt Andrew Post Office had opened earlier on 1 January 1856 and was renamed St Andrews in 1923. \nIt experienced population growth during the Victorian gold rush when prospectors mined the hills around the town. The first discovery of gold in Queenstown was recorded in The Herald on 9 and 11 March 1855 and was attributed to a George Boston and two Scotsmen.\nOn 7 February 2009 a major bushfire destroyed houses on Ninks, Muller, Jacksons and Wild Dog Creek Roads as well as Buttermans Track and Olives Lane. Its...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/saint-andrews\/","name":"Saint Andrews","slug":"saint-andrews","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/20930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=20930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}