Elizabeth Downs is a northern suburb of
Adelaide,
South Australia in the
City of Playford. It is east of
Main North Road, bounded by Main North Road, Uley Road, Adams Road, Yorktown Road and Garlick Road.
The suburb contains two government primary schools and a local shopping centre.
Craigmore High School
Craigmore is a large suburb north of Adelaide, South Australia. It is in the City of Playford local government area, just east of Elizabeth and south of Gawler.
History
Craigmore is within the traditional territory of the Aboriginal Kaurna peo ...
is just outside the northern boundary, and a larger shopping centre on the other side of Main North Road. It also has a tavern with bars, bistro and bottle shop.
Open space
The
Argana Park
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Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks ...
sports precinct in the southwest of the suburb is home to
football
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,
rugby league,
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
and
netball clubs. More playing fields in the northeastern corner of the suburb include a local
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club and more cricket. Smith Creek linear park separates these from the rest of the suburb. There is a linear reserve along the easement for a major water pipe, the Barossa Trunk Main, running roughly north–south above ground through Elizabeth Downs. There is also a buffer reserve along Main North Road.
References
Suburbs of Adelaide
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