Burnside is suburb in the

City of Burnside The City of Burnside is a local government area in the South Australian city of Adelaide stretching from the Adelaide Parklands into the Adelaide foothills with an area of . It was founded in August 1856 as the District Council of Burnside, the ...

council area in the eastern suburbs of

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. It is primarily a residential suburb. It was named Burnside, an amalgamation of the Scottish word for creek, "burn" and "side" because of the original property's location on the side of Second Creek. Burnside is east of the

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by road.

Description

Burnside was established and named by Peter Anderson and his family who emigrated from

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in 1839. Anderson started a large farm on leased land near Second Creek. The farm had a large number of animals including pigs, poultry and cattle as well as barley and wheat crops. In 1848, the lease was assigned to William Randall who arranged for the town to be laid out around Second Creek. By the 1870s the area had developed into a small village. Burnside Post Office had opened on 21 July 1863. There are a number of parks but most noticeably bordering several that are shared with other suburbs. The

Burnside Swimming Centre __NOTOC__ Hazelwood Park is a park in the Australian state of South Australia located in the suburb of Hazelwood Park within the Adelaide Metropolitan Area. First creek continues its journey from the hills through the park, the water flo ...

is located in nearby Hazelwood Park.

Langman Reserve Langman Reserve is a large reserve situated in the Adelaide foothills between the suburbs of Burnside and Waterfall Gully, South Australia. It was converted from a quarry in the late 1960s, and is named after a former mayor of the City of Burn ...

is part of both Burnside and

Waterfall Gully Waterfall Gully is an eastern suburb of the South Australian capital city of Adelaide. It is located in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges around east-south-east of the Adelaide city centre. For the most part, the suburb encompasses one l ...

and the large Newland Park has several ovals. The Feathers Hotel, a

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pub, is located within the suburb. It is home to Burnside Primary School, a State government school. A number of churches in various denominations including

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and

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also call the suburb home.

Population

In the 2016 Census, there were 2,930 people in Burnside. 63.3% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 6.7% and China 6.1%. 71.6% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin at 8.0%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 36.3%, Catholic 18.4% and Anglican 14.2%. CC-BY icon

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Notable residents

George Aiston George (Poddy) Aiston (1879–1943) was an Australian ethnographer and outback pioneer who spent much of his life as policeman in the South Australian town of Mulka on the Birdsville Track.Philip Jones, 'Aiston, George (Poddy) (1879–1943)', Au ...

(1879–1943), policeman and ethnographer *

Dorrit Black Dorothea Foster Black (23 December 1891 – 13 September 1951) was an Australian painter and printmaker of the modernism, Modernist school, known for being a pioneer of Modernism in Australia. In 1951, at the age of sixty, Black was killed in a ...

(1891–1951), artist *

Jimmy Melrose Charles James Melrose (13 September 1913 – 5 July 1936) was an Australian aviator who held a number of flying records, and was the youngest and only solo flier to finish the Melbourne (MacRobertson) Centenary Air Race in 1934. History Jimmy ...

(1913–1936), aviator *

Christopher Pyne Christopher Maurice Pyne (born 13 August 1967) is a retired Australian politician. As a member of the Liberal Party, he held several ministerial positions in the Howard, Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments, and served as a member of p ...

, federal MP and Liberal frontbencher, a former student of Burnside Primary *

Sydney Talbot Smith Sydney Talbot Smith OBE (21 April 1861 – 3 October 1948) was a lawyer and journalist in the colony and State of South Australia. History Smith was born at Dover House, Burnside, South Australia the only son of (later Sir) Edwin Thomas Smith a ...

(1861–1948), solicitor, freelance journalist and civic worker

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City of Burnside
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