Smithfield Plains is a northern suburb of

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in the

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. Smithfield Plains Post Office opened on 7 December 1967 and was located in the Shopping Centre on the corner of Peachey and Crittenden Roads.

Education

The

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B-7 school was built in the 2010s, replacing several earlier schools in the area. Around the same time,

Smithfield Plains High School Smithfield may refer to: Places Australia *Electoral district of Smithfield, a former electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly *Smithfield, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney *Smithfield, Queensland, a northern suburb of Ca ...

on Coventry Road and Smithfield Plains Junior and Primary School both closed their campuses in a merger to become part of

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which opened its new campus in 2011 in nearby

Munno Para Munno Para is a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Playford. In the local Kaurna dialect, Munno Para means ''golden wattle creek''. The name refers to either the Gawler River (which starts at the conflue ...

. The derelict Junior and Primary School buildings were demolished in early 2019 and the land has been subdivided for housing allotments. The former High School buildings which had been left derelict for 10 years were demolished in 2020.

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