Glenside, South Australia
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Glenside Adelaide, South Australia |
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| Population | 2,191 (2006 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 1,565/km2 (4,053/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1860 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5065 | ||||||||||||
| Area | 1.40 km2 (0.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location | 2 km (1 mi) from Adelaide city centre | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Burnside | ||||||||||||
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Glenside is a suburb in the City of Burnside, Adelaide, South Australia, around 2 kilometres south-east of the Adelaide city centre, home to 2,985 people in a total land area of 1.40 km².
It is bordered on the north by Greenhill Road, on the east by Portrush Road, on the south by Flemington Street and Windsor Road and the west by Fullarton Road. The suburb has a rectangular layout. A number of residential streets in the suburb contain avenues of jacaranda trees, which provide lush colour when they flower in Spring.
Glenside, along with its neighbouring suburb of Glenunga were originally known by the name of 'Knoxville'. They were first settled in the 1840s as farming land, and wheat grown in the area was awarded first prize in the Royal Adelaide Show. The area now taken up by Glenunga International High School and Webb Oval, was previously home to slaughterhouses established in the nineteenth century. At one point, the slaughterhouses were exporting overseas and at the same time providing half of Adelaide's lamb requirements.
A number of coach companies, notably Cobb & Co and those of William Rounsevell, and John Hill were set up in the 1870s and 1880s. Up to 1000 horses grazed the land. At this point, most of the streets were beginning to be named. Most were named by the inhabitants at the time, usually in reference to their original homes in Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and the United States. However, one street was named after an Aboriginal Word - "Allinga", meaning sun.
In the early twentieth century, a number of businesses started locating themselves in Glenside. The Australian icon, the Hills Hoist clothes line, was invented by the Hill family in neighbouring Glenunga. Other notable businesses were the Symons & Symons glass merchants and one involved in "Bland Radios".
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