Royal Park, South Australia

Royal Park
Adelaide, South Australia
Wetland at Cooke Reserve for treating urban stormwater runoff for an ASR scheme in western Adelaide[1]
Royal Park
Coordinates 34°52′19″S 138°30′29″E / 34.872°S 138.508°E / -34.872; 138.508Coordinates: 34°52′19″S 138°30′29″E / 34.872°S 138.508°E / -34.872; 138.508
Population 2,864 (2011 census)[2]
Established 1880s[3][4]
Postcode(s) 5014
Location
LGA(s) City of Charles Sturt
State electorate(s) Lee
Federal Division(s) Port Adelaide
Suburbs around Royal Park:
West Lakes Queenstown Queenstown
West Lakes Royal Park Hendon
West Lakes Seaton Seaton

Royal Park is located in the western suburbs of Adelaide. It is home to a large Polish community, as evidenced by the establishment of St Stanislaus of Cracow Catholic Church. Other ethnic groups represented include Italian, Croatian, Bosnian, Irish, Macedonian and Greek. At that time there was still a tribe of Aborigines living around the wetlands west of Royal Park that is now the suburb of West Lakes. In the 1950s a few streets at the southern end of Royal Park were allocated for Government Public Housing developments through the South Australian Housing Trust. In recent years, there has been large-scale re-developments that include private housing and a soon-to-be-built retirement village.

Community

Parks and reserves

  • Carnegie Reserve
  • Cooke Reserve
  • Fisher Reserve
  • Royal Reserve

Schools

  • Hendon Primary School
  • Royal Park High School - opened 1971; name changed to West Lakes High School, 1978; closed 1991.[3]

References

  1. ↑ City of Charles Sturt > Water Proofing the West > Cooke Reserve and West Lakes Golf Course Accessed 23 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Royal Park". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 9 April 2016. Edit this at Wikidata
  3. 1 2 City of Charles Sturt > Local history factsheet: A brief history of the suburb Royal Park Accessed 28 March 2014
  4. ↑ Marsden, Susan (1977): A history of Woodville. Corporation of the City of Woodville. Pp. 83, 85. ISBN 0 9599828 4 1


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