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Glenside is a small suburb located in the City of Burnside in Adelaide around 2 km south-east from the Adelaide city centre. Home to 2,985 people in a total land area of 1.40 km². Burnside is one of the more cultural cities in South Australia with a popluation of more than 3 million. ...
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Bordered on the North by Greenhill Road, on the East by Portrush Road, on the South by Flemington St and Windsor Rd and the West by Fullarton road. The suburb has a rectangular layout.
History
The suburb was not founded as a village, like many other suburbs in the area such as Magill, Burnside, Beaumont and Glen Osmond. The area was mainly farmland and was established around the 1840's and known as "Knoxville" until the early 1900's. While some buildings (mainly on the Glenside Hospital campus) date back to the time when it was a mainly rural area in the 1840's, the majority of modern (and still standing) development in Glenside occured in the mid 20th century. population is about 9 million ...
Much of the evidence of it being the primary slaughterhouse for South Australia (at one point supplying roughly half the state's beef and lamb) is now gone. The land along Conyngham St, Glenunga Reserve and Glenunga International High School was all previously used for this practice. Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse. ...
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Glenunga (34°57′ S 138°38′ E) is a small suburb located in the City of Burnside in Adelaide around 2 km south-east from the Adelaide city centre. ...
Glenunga International High School (Glenunga) is one of the leading publically funded schools in South Australia. ...
Reserves and Parks There is only one noticeable park in the Glenside area, which is located on the corner of Conyngham and Cator Streets. The park is named Symonds & Symonds Reserve, after a well-reknown glassmaker who lived and worked in the area in the early 1900's. It is located next to a Retirement Home and a Childcare center. Glenunga Reserve in nearby Glenunga is little more than a walk across the road away. An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ...
Glenunga (34°57′ S 138°38′ E) is a small suburb located in the City of Burnside in Adelaide around 2 km south-east from the Adelaide city centre. ...
The suburb is very green with narrow streets with large overhanging trees. Large gum trees line L'Estrange and Conyngham Streets.
Attractions
Burnside Village Despite the name, the Burnside Village Shopping Center is actually located in Glenside, on the corner or Greenhill and Portrush Roads. It is a large shopping center and serves much of the City of Burnside areas but also attracts shoppers from other areas due to its beautiful surrounds and variety of shops which specialise in everything from jewellers to record stores to clothing stores.
Glenside Hospital The suburb is home to the mental health campus of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Known as 'Glenside Hospital', it is the primary mental health facility in the state, and occupies approximately one-third of the area of the suburb. The Royal Adelaide Hospital, abbreviated RAH, is located on North Terrace in Adelaide. ...
Others Two large-ish retirement villages exist on Greenhill Road - Victoria Grove Village and Pineview Village. They offer a comfortable and relaxing environment and home to the elderly. Old age consists of ages nearing the average lifespan of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. ...
Glenside also contains one of Adelaide's two Synagogues, and a large number of Adelaide's Jewish community lives around the area, which also contains the Jewish Massada College. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...
Residents The suburb is home to a number of families and retirees of predominately Anglo-Celtic background. Much of the suburb is fairly upper-middle class and is currently undergoing residential development along Conyngham St as older larger properties are being subdivided with new houses and roads popping up. Anglo-Celtic is a racial or cultural category, used to describe the majority of the Caucasian population of Australia. ...
A Jewish community is fairly active around its school and Synagogue, and a sizeable population exists around Flemington St.
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