Melrose Park 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 ...

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in the

City of Mitcham The City of Mitcham is a local government area in the foothills of southern Adelaide, South Australia. Within its bounds is Flinders University, South Australia's third largest, and the notable, affluent suburb of Springfield which contains so ...

. It is bordered by

South Road South Road and its southern section as Main South Road outside of Adelaide is a major north–south conduit connecting Adelaide and the Fleurieu Peninsula, in South Australia. It is one of Adelaide's most important arterial and bypass roads. As ...

Daws Road Daws Road is a major arterial road in the central southern suburbs of Adelaide, running east–west between Marion Road in the west and Goodwood Road in the east. Route Daws Road commences at the intersection with Oaklands Road and Marion Road ...

, Winston Avenue and Edward Street. Until 1989,Place Names of South Australia – M
The Manning Index of South Australian History,

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Melrose Park was part of the suburb of

Edwardstown Edwardstown is an inner southern-western suburb located 6 km southwest of Adelaide in the City of Marion. In 1989 the suburb of Edwardstown was split, with the portion east of South Road becoming Melrose Park. This occurred as the suburb ...

. The name change occurred as the suburb was quite large, located on either side of South Road and was in the jurisdiction of two

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councils, with the larger western side belonging to the

City of Marion The City of Marion is a local government area in part of the southern and western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. The council offices are in the suburb of Sturt. History The District Council of Brighton was established in 1853, centred ...

. The suburb was named after early South Australian aviator,

Charles James 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 ...

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