Salisbury ( ) is a northern suburb of
Adelaide
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,
South Australia
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. It is the seat of the
City of Salisbury
The City of Salisbury is a local government area (LGA) located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Its neighbours are the City of Playford, City of Tea Tree Gully and City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
Encompassing an area of ...
, and is within the
South Australian Legislative Assembly
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Overview
The House of Assemb ...
electoral district of Ramsay
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and the
Australian House of Representatives
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...
division of
Spence. The suburb is a service area for the
City of Salisbury
The City of Salisbury is a local government area (LGA) located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Its neighbours are the City of Playford, City of Tea Tree Gully and City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
Encompassing an area of ...
district, with many parklands, shops, cafés and restaurants.
History
Salisbury was founded by
John Harvey John Harvey may refer to:
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, who arrived in the
province of South Australia from Scotland in 1839 as a young single man, three years after the
establishment of government by British settlers.
He began selling town allotments in 1848, from land he had purchased along the
Little Para River
The Little Para River is a seasonal creek running across the Adelaide Plains in the Australian state of South Australia, whose catchment fills reservoirs that supply some of the water needs of Adelaide’s northern suburbs.
Course and features ...
in the previous year. He named the town after
Salisbury
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in
Wiltshire
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, since his new wife came from near
Salisbury Plain
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in England.
Salisbury started its life as a service centre for the surrounding wheat and hay farms. Salisbury Post Office opened around March 1850.
Salisbury railway station
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was built in 1857 on the broad-gauge main northern line to
Gawler
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. In 1917 it became a junction where a new line to
Long Plains diverged north-west.
In 1982, this
latter line was converted to standard gauge.
[ In 1985, the State Transport Authority demolished the historic station buildings to make way for a bus–rail interchange.
Salisbury's first police station was established in 1859.
In 1851, the first Methodist Church was erected. Saint Augustine's Catholic Church was completed in March 1857. Saint John's Anglican Church was opened for service in 1865.
The area's first school, Salisbury Public School, was completed in 1877.
In 1881, Salisbury's town population was between 400 and 500.]
The District Council of Salisbury
The City of Salisbury is a local government area (LGA) located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Its neighbours are the City of Playford, City of Tea Tree Gully and City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
Encompassing an area of , ...
was established in 1933 (amalgamating Yatala North south of the Little Para and Munno Para West to the north) which centred local governance of the area on the main population centre between Enfield and Gawler, the township of Salisbury.
Influx of inhabitants
During the Second World War
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, in 1940, an explosives
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and filling factory – the Salisbury Explosives Factory
Edinburgh is an outer northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Salisbury. The suburb was created in 1997, on land straddling Penfield and Salisbury, that was compulsorily acquired by the Commonwealth Government in 1940 in or ...
– was established at Penfield, to the north. Covering about , it commenced production in mid-1942. By January 1943, 6500 persons were employed, producing 135,000 shells, bomb
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s and mine
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M ...
s per week.The population of the district doubled to more than 4000, most being concentrated in the Salisbury township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
, bringing to an end the bucolic life of the townspeople. Four years after the war had ended and the factory had closed, a large influx of newcomers again occurred when about 1000 employees of a new rocket testing project were progressively accommodated at a new South Australian Housing Trust
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estate at Salisbury North
Salisbury North is a suburb in the City of Salisbury, part of the greater Adelaide conurbation in South Australia. It was built by the South Australian Housing Trust on a greenfield site in the early 1950s, mainly to house employees of the near ...
, which started to take shape in 1949.[
]
Present-day demographics
In the 21st century, Salisbury has been a popular destination for immigrants. In the , 52.1% of the Salisbury population were born in Australia. Other countries of birth were England 4.2%, Bhutan 4%, Myanmar 3.8%, Afghanistan 3.7% and Nepal 3.3%. 52.2% spoke English only at home. Other languages spoken at home were Nepali 8.0%, Hazaraghi 3.6%, Italian 3%, Vietnamese 2.2% and Arabic 1.9%.
Politics
Salisbury is a constituent of the 33-times-larger[ versus .] City of Salisbury
The City of Salisbury is a local government area (LGA) located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Its neighbours are the City of Playford, City of Tea Tree Gully and City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
Encompassing an area of ...
local government area
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. , there were 13 City of Salisbury councillors: 7 Australian Labor Party
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(ALP) and 6 independent. The state member of parliament for the electoral district of Ramsay
Ramsay is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after Alexander Maurice Ramsay, Alexander Ramsay, who was general manager of the South Australian Housin ...
was Zoe Bettison
Zoe Lee Bettison (born 19 April 1973) is an Australian politician representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Ramsay for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party since the 2012 Ramsay by-election.
Bettison h ...
(ALP), and the federal member, for the Division of Spence
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, was Matt Burnell
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(ALP).
Two South Australian Australian Labor Party
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leaders, Lynn Arnold
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(Premier
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1992–1993) and Mike Rann
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(Premier 2002–2011) both represented the Salisbury area in the South Australian Parliament
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. Arnold was elected as the MP for Ramsay
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, and then Taylor
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...
, and Rann was elected as the MP for Briggs and Ramsay.
Transport
Trains to and from Adelaide and Gawler from Salisbury
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operate every 15 minutes at off-peak times on Monday to Friday, and every 30 minutes during the day on Saturday and Sunday. In the evening, services run every hour. In morning peak hours, there are several trains that run non-stop between Salisbury and Adelaide (or make only one stop, at Mawson Interchange). These are used by a significant number of city workers who either park their vehicle or transfer from buses at Salisbury Interchange.
Local buses from Salisbury Interchange, scheduled to connect with trains to and from Adelaide, use the Adelaide Metro integrated ticketing
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system. In May 2012 there were 13 local bus routes providing links to many of the northern suburbs, such as routes 400 and 430 to Elizabeth
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, route 415V to Golden Grove, routes 224, 225, 411 to Mawson Lakes
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Much of the suburb was previou ...
, routes 225, 500, 502, 560 to Para Hills, routes 401, 411 to Paralowie
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History
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and routes 404, 405 to Parafield Gardens
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.
Churches
The first St John's Anglican Church was established on the block in Church Street about 1846 or 1850, one of the first churches to be constructed in Salisbury. As the size of the congregation increased, a second church, designed by Daniel Garlick
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in Gothic style
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, was built in 1865, after the first foundation stone was laid by Bishop Augustus Short
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Early life and career
Born at Bickham House, near Exeter, Devon, England, the third son of Charles Short, a London bar ...
in 1858. The smaller old church was used as a school from 1851 to 1877 in addition to serving as a church until 1865. The replacement church was gutted by fire in 1989, after being heritage-listed
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on the Register of the National Estate
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for its fine stained glass windows and other significant architectural and historical features. In 1995 an auditorium was built connecting the church and the church hall. The inaugural Edmund Wright Heritage Award for Heritage Places in 2003 was won by Peter Moeck for the new auditorium project by Brown Falconer. the official name of the church is Church of Saint John The Evangelist, but it is known as St John's Anglican Church.
In 1851, the first Methodist Church was erected. St. Augustine's Catholic Church was completed in March 1857.
Retail
The major retail zone in Salisbury is the Parabanks Shopping Centre, a short distance from Salisbury Interchange, first opened about 1977. The single-floor complex includes 74 stores and 3 anchor stores
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, with a total floor area of 23,800 m2, and about 1400 parking spaces. In 2008, property group Stockland
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History
Stockland was founded in 1952 by ...
sold the shopping centre to the Angaet Group. In 2015, an $18 million redevelopment of the centre was approved by the Salisbury Council. The redevelopment consisted of three stages, with five specialty stores added to the eastern side mall, the relocation of the Coles supermarket and external upgrades, which were completed in 2017.
Gallery
See also
*List of Adelaide suburbs
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Notes
References
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