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Wayville is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley.It is most notable for hosting of the Royal Adelaide Show at the Adelaide Showgrounds.. The suburb is bordered to the north by Adelaide's South Parklands, [3] to the west by Adelaide-Goodwood railway line, to the east by King William Road, and to the south by Leader Street, Parsons Street and Simpson Parade.
The main arena of the Showground, which at its peak in the 1920s and 1930s held 35,000 people, but now can hold approximately 14,000, was known as the Speedway Royal during its heyday from 1926 until 1934, and is sometimes referred to as "The birthplace of Australian Speedway", even though dirt track speedway in Australia actually started in Maitland, New South Wales, in 1923.
Downstream from Wayville the watercourse is known as Keswick Creek. From there flows are typically directed via a constructed drain through the inner western suburbs of Keswick , Mile End South , Richmond , Cowandilla , West Richmond and Brooklyn Park before draining along the eastern edge of Adelaide Airport to join Brown Hill Creek near ...
Fergusson Square in Toorak Gardens, a leafy inner eastern suburb.. This is a list of the suburbs of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, with their postcodes [1] and local government areas (LGAs).
Prior to British colonisation of South Australia, Unley was home to the Aboriginal nation known as the Kaurna, or Adelaide Plains tribe. Settlement by colonists began in the mid-19th century, with arrivals predominantly from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and to a small extent German speaking lands. At this time a small number of ...
The Royal Adelaide Show is an annual carnival and agricultural show run by the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia. It is held at the Adelaide Showground , a dedicated venue located in Wayville , a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
The southern section of the Goodwood Subway in 2008: Coordinates (North end); (South end); General information; Type: Road: Location: Adelaide: Length: 9.3 km (5.8 mi) [1]: Former route number: A21 (1998–2017) (Adelaide–Wayville): Major junctions; North end: West Terrace South Terrace Anzac Highway Adelaide: : Greenhill Road; Cross Road; South end: Southern Expressway South Road Main South ...
Old Reynella is a metropolitan suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located 20 km south of the Adelaide city centre in the north of the City of Onkaparinga. The suburb is named after John Reynell, a pioneering South Australian winemaker. Reynell sold some farmland to create the town of Reynella which is the present location of the suburb ...