Frewville, South Australia
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Frewville Adelaide, South Australia |
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| Population | 797 (2011 census) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1854 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5063 | ||||||||||||
| Location | 3 km (2 mi) from Adelaide | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Burnside | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Unley | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Sturt | ||||||||||||
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Frewville is a small suburb in the South Australian city of Adelaide. It is three kilometres south-east of Adelaide's central business district (CBD).
The name Frewville is taken from an early settler James Frew. Frewville is in the local government area of the City of Burnside. It has a triangular layout, bounded on the north by Flemington Street, the east by Conyngham Street, and the south-west by Glen Osmond Road.
Frewville was originally part of the farming land originally sold to William Giles — this land is now known as the suburb of Fullarton. In early maps Frewville is shown to be on both the north-eastern and south-western sides of Glen Osmond Road.
In 1853 James Frew paid ₤2,200 for the 130-acre (53 ha) allotment after Glen Osmond Road was cut through the middle of the Section.
James Frew arrived in Adelaide on the Lady Bute with his brother Robert in 1839. He acquired the land in the area now known as Frewville in July 1847 and subsequently subdivided it in 1865.
His son James Frew Jr was born 21 October 1840 in Adelaide, and was a member of John McDouall Stuart's 1861-1862 expedition, the first to cross the continent from south to north. He died 8 September 1877 (aged 36) and is buried in West Terrace Cemetery.
Frewville was originally used for the grazing of horses by the early colonists, but the village of Frewville was laid out in 1854 in Section 265. In 1855 a blacksmith set up on the corner closest to Adelaide, and the Frewville Inn was established on Glen Osmond Road.
In the next few years a weighbridge was established by the Hollard family - whose name is remembered as one of the streets in Frewville. There was at about this time a single large two-storey wooden villa house that was set well back from Glen Osmond Road. Tall pines were planted along Glen Osmond Road.
In 1881 most of Frewville was then subdivided into the property boundaries that exist today. The suburb was populated by the "new" trades-people of the day - electricians, gas-fitters and the like.
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