Walkley Heights is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The suburb is located on land formerly comprising the prison farm for Yatala Labour Prison, and includes fifty-five hectares of land formerly owned by R. M. Williams which was compulsorily acquired during the time of former State Premier Sir Thomas Playford.[2] The suburb (and one adjacent main road) is named after John Walkley, an early pioneer in South Australia[3]
| Walkley Heights Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Walkley Heights reserve | |||||||||||||||
| Population | 3,513 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1995 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5098 | ||||||||||||||
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| State electorate(s) | Florey | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Makin | ||||||||||||||
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The suburb had a population, in 2001, of only 713[4] increasing to 3,497 by 2016.
Facilities
editA small shopping centre at the end of Homestead Avenue has a Drakes supermarket, a pizza shop, a bakery, a Salvation Army opportunity shop, a beauty salon and a doctor's surgery. Also there is a childcare centre and kindergarten.
The South Australian Government has a large logistics and technical facility, used by several departments, in Wright Road at the western end of the suburb.
Environment
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The suburb occupies 1.5 square kilometres of land either side of the Dry Creek linear park which features mature river red gums, recent landscaped plantings, and the remains of an old stockman's hut. Within the linear park is the Walkley Heights reserve where mallee box grassy woodland is actively being conserved under the Urban forest biodiversity program.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Walkley Heights (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Postcards – Dry Creek – Linear Park
- ^ www.placenames.sa.gov.au Government of South Australia, Land Services Group
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001 Census of Population and Housing
- ^ Urban Forest Biodiversity Program, press release from www.urbanforest.on.net
34°50′20″S 138°38′17″E / 34.839°S 138.638°E
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