Students in public school for grades 9-12 attend Lakeland Regional High School in Wanaque, which serves students from the Boroughs of Ringwood and Wanaque.

Students in public school for grades 9 – 12 attend Lakeland Regional High School, which serves students from the Boroughs of Ringwood and Wanaque.

In 2009, the State Government controversially approved the building of a nine storey housing development near Ringwood Lake, without Council or public consultation.

As part of the Melbourne 2030 planning policy, Ringwood became a designated ' Transit City ', as a push to locate higher-density development near public transport facilities.

The access to high performing public schools, such as Ringwood Secondary College, as well as renowned private schools Tintern Girls Grammar and Aquinas College, is leading to high demand for housing in Ringwood East.

Students in Kindergarten through eighth grade attend the schools of the Ringwood Public School District.

The state primary schools are Ringwood Junior, Poulner Junior, Ringwood CofE Infants and Poulner Infants.

A number of primary and secondary schools are well established in the surrounding Croydon and Ringwood North suburbs and thus the area is popular with young families.

Government primary schools in Ringwood North are:

Government secondary schools in Ringwood North are:

There are records from the early 19th century of four breweries, one owned by a banker named Stephen Tunks, that stood on the site of the present day Ringwood Brewery.

Ringwood is governed by a seven-member Borough Council whose members are elected at-large in partisan elections to serve four-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three or four seats coming up for election every other year.

, members of the Ringwood Borough Council are Mayor Linda M. Schaefer ( term as mayor ends December 31, 2012 ; term in office ends 2013 ), Deputy Mayor John M. Speer ( term as mayor ends December 31, 2012 ; term in office ends 2015 ), Donna S. Anderson ( 2013 ), Walter J. Davison ( 2015 ), William E. Marsala ( 2013 ), Jim Martocci ( 2015 ) and Sean Noonan ( 2015 ).

There are no state, U. S., or Interstate highways in Ringwood.

In Australia, Freddo Frogs are manufactured in Ringwood, Victoria and Hobart.

Bus services are located throughout the suburb, and go to Oakleigh, Ringwood, Lilydale, Box Hill, Emerald, Glen Waverley, Olinda, Monbulk and Knox City Shopping Centre.

The only remnants of these lines through the village are the original level crossing gatekeeper's cottage on Station Road, and the Castleman Trailway footpath following the original trackbed leading to Ringwood to the east and Poole to the west.

Though QIC also owns the adjacent Ringwood Market site-which was demolished at the end of 2009 to make way for a new retail / commercial development-there are currently no plans for Eastland to expand westward onto this vacant land.

The East Ringwood Cricket Club and Tennis Club are also based at the reserve.

Other former Brakspear brewing staff are involved in a number of craft breweries, Justin Grant became head brewer of the Breconshire Brewery ; Chris Hearn & Steve Brown are now at Loddon Brewery near Henley, Mike McGuigan is brewing at Brimstage Brewery, Wirral ; Adrian Redgrove is head brewer at Castle Rock Brewery-Nottingham they won CAMRA's 2010 Champion Beer of Britain Award for their Harvest Pale ; Stuart Howe is head brewer at Sharp's Brewery, Cornwall ; and Jeff Drew is head brewer at Ringwood Brewery, Hants

Once again, the 5th District will represent the extreme northern part of the county but will only comprise West Milford and Ringwood.

Ringwood Manor, with a mortar ( weapon ) | mortar and part of the Hudson River Chain

Ringwood is in the 5th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 39th state legislative district.

A report from the Association of Train Operating Companies in 2009 recommended rebuilding part of the line from Brockenhurst to Ringwood.

The swampland with its dense growth of swamp tea-tree and other vegetation was covered for the most part by the waters from the Dandenong, Eumemmerring, and other smaller creeks, with a total catchment area of approximately 430 km², with the present townships of Langwarrin, Cranbourne, Berwick, Belgrave, Ferntree Gully, Olinda, Lilydale, Croydon and Ringwood forming its perimeter.

Ringwood has been designated to be a Transit City, as part of the Melbourne 2030 development plan by the Bracks Government.

In 2007 the station was upgraded as part of the EastLink road project linking the north-eastern suburb of Ringwood to Frankston.

The current island platform was opened in 1984 as part of the line duplication between Ringwood and Croydon.

The current up platform ( platform 1 ) was provided in 1984 as part of the line duplication between Croydon and Ringwood.

A second platform was provided in 1982, as part of the duplication of the line between Ringwood and Bayswater.

The current island platform opened in 1982, as part of the duplication of the line between Bayswater and Ringwood stations.

* City of Doncaster and Templestowe-A former Local Government Area which Ringwood North was a part of.

* City of Ringwood-A former Local Government Area which Ringwood North was a part of.

* City of Ringwood-A former Local Government Area which Ringwood East was a part of.

Ringwood Avenue, Beech Drive, Church Vale and Twyford Avenue were built during the 1930s on the southern part of Coldfall Wood.

Ringwood Manor, with a mortar and part of the Hudson River Chain

The trailway is part of the former Southampton and Dorchester Railway line which ran from Brockenhurst to Hamworthy Junction via Ringwood.

Image: Ringwood2. jpg | Ringwood Manor showing a mortar and part of the Great Chain

Greg Macainsh and Imants " Freddie " Strauks both attended Norwood High School in the Melbourne suburb of Ringwood and formed Spare Parts in 1966 with Macainsh on bass guitar and Strauks on lead vocals.

Bloomingdale was incorporated as an independent borough on February 23, 1918, when Pompton Township was split up into three new municipalities along with Wanaque and Ringwood.

Ringwood Christian School, which was founded in 1973 through the Ringwood Baptist Church, serves 80 students in Kindergarten through eighth grade, with part-time sessions available for pre-schoolers.

Ringwood is serviced by a volunteer ambulance corps and three volunteer fire companies, with each fire company covering one section of the borough.

Wanaque was incorporated as an independent borough on February 23, 1918, when Pompton Township was split up into three boroughs, along with Bloomingdale and Ringwood, based on the results of a referendum held on March 22, 1918.

To the south of Salisbury it enters the Hampshire Basin, flowing along the western edge of the New Forest through Fordingbridge and Ringwood, meeting up with the river Stour at Christchurch, to flow into Christchurch Harbour and the English Channel at Mudeford.

Ringwood was noted as the second most expensive market town in England in July 2008 with average property prices of over £ 380, 000.

There is also a Waldorf school, the Ringwood Waldorf School a centre for Steiner Education for ages 3 to 18 years with around 260 pupils.

In January 1331, Ringwood and other manors which Isabella had previously surrendered were granted to William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, whose descendants with some intermission held it for more than two centuries, until the death of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury in 1541.

In 1862 the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway created a new link with Christchurch.

The White Hart at Ringwood in the New Forest is said to have been the first pub so named, after King Henry VII caught such a beast nearby, had it leashed and led it back to the town in triumph, a legend with the flavour of political allegory.

The new municipality contains the former City of Doncaster & Templestowe, but with Ringwood North ceded to the new City of Maroondah and Wonga Park, annexed from the former Shire of Lillydale.

* On 28 August 2006, due to the late completion of bridge preparation works on the Belgrave and Lilydale railway line, the line was closed for the morning with inadequate warning to commuters of the closure of the line between Blackburn and Ringwood stations causing chaos at Ringwood where lengthy queues formed for the replacement buses.

One SmartBus route, connecting Rowville to Caulfield via Monash University and Huntingdale Station has been established, with the other providing a link to Ringwood and Frankston which began operation in 2008.

Buses from several companies also service the area, linking residents directly with Bayswater Station, surrounding suburbs and the retail and commercial precincts of Ringwood, Croydon and Knox City.

It was pioneered in 1978 by a team led by Dr Ted Ringwood at the Australian National University, with further research undertaken in collaboration with ANSTO at research laboratories in Lucas Heights.