Vale Park is a suburb of
Adelaide
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in the
Town of Walkerville
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,
Australia. It is located northeast of the
Adelaide city centre
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between
North East Road and the
River Torrens
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, astride
Ascot Avenue, part of the
A17 highway which is the eastern ring route bypass of Adelaide.
Vale Park was originally a private subdivision named after Vale House, the home of
Philip Levi
Philip Levi (1 February 1822 – 13 May 1898) was an early settler and pastoralist of South Australia.
Born at Brixton Hill, Surrey, England,
Levi arrived in South Australia at the age of sixteen, aboard the '' Eden'' in 1838 with his parent ...
, a pastoral pioneer.
History
The eastern section of Vale Park was originally known as Hamilton, after Robert Hamilton, who owned the first farmhouse built there, Hamilton House. This was demolished in 2017. Hamilton was home to a few farmers; however, the original subdivisions weren't very popular because the land was thought to be too far from the city. Today the land value in Vale Park is very high. In the 1930s the area started to be referred to as Willow Bend.
Market gardens and horse trotting tracks were the main uses of the land until the early 1960s.
The suburb of Vale Park was proclaimed in 1961 and development started. These 1960s houses remained relatively untouched until recently, when they have started to be demolished in the process of urban
infill
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, which is becoming increasingly common in inner-city Adelaide suburbs over 50 years old.
On 3 August 1964 Vale Park Primary school opened on Ascot Avenue. , 506 students were enrolled at the school.
Politics
The suburb has lain with the following state-level electoral districts:
*1956–1970:
Enfield
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Places Australia
* Enfield, New South Wales
* Enfield, South Australia
** Electoral district of Enfield, a state electoral district in South Australia, corresponding to the suburb
** Enfield High School (South Australia)
...
*1970–1993:
Gilles
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*1993–2002:
Torrens
*2002–2014:
Norwood
*2014–2018:
Dunstan
*2018–present:
Torrens
See also
*
List of Adelaide suburbs
This is a list of the suburbs of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, with their postcodes and local government areas (LGAs). This article does not include suburbs and localities within the Adelaide Hills region.
Adelaide's most expe ...
References
Suburbs of Adelaide
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