The City of Glenelg was a

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seated at the

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sea-side township of Glenelg from 1855 until 1997.

History

The Corporate Town of Glenelg was proclaimed on 23 August 1855 by severance from the

District Council of West Torrens The City of West Torrens is a local government area in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Since the 1970s the area was mainly home to many open spaces and parks, however after the mid-1990s (1993-1995) the LGA became more residen ...

and

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. When first proclaimed, the corporate town extended over sections 184, 204 and 205 of the

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. At the time, section 204 was already bisected west to east by the "main road leading from Adelaide to Glenelg", which ultimately was called Anzac Highway. The initial town boundaries extended from approximately the modern Kibby Avenue and Margaret Street (

Glenelg North Glenelg North is a seaside suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in both the City of Holdfast Bay and the City of West Torrens. Demographics The 2011 Census by the Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 5,699 persons in Glenelg ...

), in the north, to the modern Boundary Road and Yarrum Grove (

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), in the south. Five years later, the

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was proclaimed immediately to the south of Glenelg council. In the half century from 1900 the Glenelg council was enlarged by four separate annexations of portions of the

, its north eastern neighbour. The municipality of Glenelg ultimately became the City of Glenelg when it crossed the required population threshold in the early 1900s. Glenelg and its southern coastal neighbour, the City of Brighton, were amalgamated in 1997 to become the

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, which retained the two civic centres at Glenelg and

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References

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