Cumberland Park is an inner-southern suburb of

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in the

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Location

Located at 34.97°S 138.59°E, it is 58 m above mean sea level, and about 5 km south of the

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. The suburb's borders are Cross Road (north), Goodwood Road (east), Edward Street (south) and Winston Avenue (west). It is diagonally opposite Colonel Light Gardens (to the south-east) and Kings Park (to the north-east), and adjoins Westbourne Park (east), Clarence Gardens (west) and Clarence Park (north).

History

Historically, the region was vast

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with no residential occupation. The site on which

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currently stands was farmland up until the school's development in the early 1900s.

Shopping

Cumberland Park is mainly a residential suburb, with a number of shops and businesses along Goodwood Road. These include a

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with an adjoining Woolworths supermarket on the Cross Road corner. The shopping centre, which opened in the 1970s, was redeveloped in 2013. A notable tenant in the corner of that car park, diagonally opposite

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, was, for many years, The Welsh Cafe, possibly Australia's only Welsh eating place. It closed in early 2013. Cumberland Park Post Office opened on 1 November 1993, replacing the Clarence Park Post Office. It closed in 2011.

Schools

, a private

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coeducational college that serves grades seven to twelve, once administered by the Dominican Nuns, is located on Cross Road.

Housing

The median price for a 3 bedroom house based on 17 sales in the period May 2016 to May 2017 was $658,000.
The median price for a 3 bedroom house based on 18 sales in the period Feb 2017 to Feb 2018 was $695,000.

References

{{City of Mitcham suburbs Suburbs of Adelaide