Kudla is a locality in the northern
Adelaide
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suburbs, 34 km from the
city centre, just south of
Gawler
Gawler is the oldest country town on the Australian mainland in the state of South Australia. It was named after the second Governor (British Vice-Regal representative) of the colony of South Australia, George Gawler. It is about north of the ...
. It is in the
Town of Gawler
The Town of Gawler is a local government area located north of Adelaide city centre in South Australia containing Gawler and its suburbs. The corporate town was established in 1857 due to the township's residents' dissatisfaction at being gover ...
local government area.
Geography
Kudla is bounded by Main North Road, Dalkeith Road, Angle Vale Road and Gordon Road. Coventry Road is the most significant road through the area, approximately southwest to northeast. Kudla is named after the
Kudla railway station, which in turn had been named from an
Aboriginal word meaning ''level ground, open or remote''. The name was approved in 1982 in preference to alternate possibilities of Dalkeith and Dalkeith Vale.
Kudla is served by the Dalkeith
Country Fire Service
The South Australian Country Fire Service (SACFS, commonly abbreviated as CFS) is a volunteer based fire service in the Australian state of South Australia. The CFS has responsibility as the Control Agency for firefighting and Hazardous Waste ...
based on the south side of the Dalkeith Road and Coventry Road intersection.
Transport
Kudla is served by the
Kudla railway station on the
Gawler railway line and is west of
Main North Road
Main North Road is the major north-south arterial route through the suburbs north of the Adelaide City Centre in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. It continues north through the settled areas of South Australia and is a total of long, fro ...
.
References
Suburbs of Adelaide
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