Felixstow is a suburb of
Adelaide
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, situated in the
City of Norwood Payneham St Peters
The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters is a metropolitan local government area of South Australia. It covers the inner eastern suburbs of Adelaide. It is divided into five wards: Torrens, Payneham, West Norwood/Kent Town, Kensington (each el ...
. It is located approximately from the
Adelaide city centre
Adelaide city centre (Kaurna: Tarndanya) is the inner city locality of Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Ad ...
.
It was reportedly named by
Thomas Stow
Thomas Quinton Stow (7 July 1801 – 19 July 1862), generally referred to as the Rev. T. Q. Stow, but also as Quinton Stow, was an Australian pioneer Congregational minister.
Brian L. Jones,Stow, Thomas Quinton (1801 - 1862), '' Australian Dicti ...
, who had been the first European to take up pastoral duties in the area, by combining the
Latin
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word for "happy" with the
Old English
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word for "place". His son,
Augustine Stow, later had a vineyard at Felixstow.
Felixstow Post Office opened as
Hectorville Post Office on 1 July 1882 and was renamed
Felixstow Post Office on 15 August 1963.
The historic
Forsyth House (now the Aldersgate Nursing Home) is listed on the
South Australian Heritage Register
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.
References
Suburbs of Adelaide
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