Erindale is a suburb of
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
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 ...
. It is on the east side of Glynburn Road, where it borders
Leabrook.
The suburb came into existence in 1912 by the sub-division of a property formerly belonging to the estate of
James Cowan. Cowan had purchased the property in 1889 from John Stuart Sanders and renamed it ''Erindale'' after his place of birth.
[ Warburton; Elizabeth, (1981), ''The Paddocks Beneath: a history of Burnside from the beginning'', The Corporation of the City of Burnside, South Australia, pages 16 and 17. ()]
See also
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List of cities and towns in South Australia
References
Suburbs of Adelaide
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