Woodville South 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 ...

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

. It lies within the

City of Charles Sturt The City of Charles Sturt is a local government area in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, stretching to the coast. The council was formed on 1 January 1997 as a result of the amalgamation of the City of Hindmarsh Woodville and t ...

. Woodville South is adjacent to the suburbs of Woodville West, Woodville, Woodville Park, Beverley, and Findon. Woodville South is the location of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, one of Adelaide's main hospitals, as well as

Woodville Oval Woodville Oval (currently Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval and formerly ''Unleash Solar Oval'') is primarily an Australian rules football and cricket oval found on Oval Avenue in the western Adelaide suburb of Woodville South in South Australia. It ...

, the home of

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team, the

Woodville-West Torrens Eagles Woodville-West Torrens Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). It was formed in 1990 from an amalgamation of the neighbouring Woodville and West Torrens football clu ...

. Woodville South Post Office opened on 1 June 1960 and closed in 1974. The former suburb of Tenterden (variously spelled as Tenterdon) now forms the north-western portion of Woodville South.

Heritage

Woodville South contains a number of buildings of local heritage significance, recorded in the

's Development Plan. These include the original stone building of Woodville Primary School on Port Road, as well as the adjacent stone cottage to the west, and the

Uniting Church The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was founded on 22 June 1977, when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two-thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost all the churches of the Congregational Union ...

complex located at 44a Woodville Road, which includes a church, manse and Sunday School building. Also listed is the Woodville Hotel, located on Port Road. Houses with local heritage significance include those at 100 Ledger Road and 2-4 Tenterden Street. A number of homes within Woodville South are listed as contributing towards the historic character of an Historic Conservation Area which incorporates parts of the suburbs of Woodville, Woodville Park and Woodville South. These include houses in Angus Street, Cedar Avenue, Glen Eira Street, Glen Rowan Road, Glengarry Street, Glenhuntley Street and Oval Avenue.https://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/291866/Charles_Sturt_Council_Development_Plan.pdf These streets are notable for their high concentration of Tudor-style bungalows.

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City of Charles Sturt
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