Lilydale is a suburb of
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
39 km north-east from
Melbourne's central business
district situated in the Yarra
Valley. At the 2011 census,
Lilydale had a population of
15,649. It began as a town within
the Shire of Lillydale and is also
notable as the burial site of
Dame Nellie Melba (Lilydale
Cemetery).
It is both a residential area of
metropolitan Melbourne and an
industrial area on the city's
rural-urban fringe.