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Street name Galaxy Court
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
A cul-de-sac at the top of Zenith Avenue - which ‘reaches to the stars’ ? The area was
developed in the 1970s.
Year in which street acquired present name 1970s
Sources of information
Private information from C. A. Sargent, subdivider.
Street name Gamay Court
Suburb Auldana
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the grape variety Gamay.
This grape which is suitable for producing a light red fruity luncheon wine is not widely
grown in Australia
Other streets in Auldana with names associated with grape varieties are Hermitage Road,
Shiraz Place, Traminer Way and Verdelho Court. Auldana was previously part of the
vineyards of the Home Park estate.
(For further details of Home Park see Patrick Auld Drive, Auldana.)
Year in which street acquired present name 1980
Sources of information
Evans, L., Pocket Guide to Australian Wines, p. 460.
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Street name Gandy’s Gully Road
Suburb Stonyfell
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Edward Gandy (1829-1902).
Edward Gandy managed Edward Laughton’s Jersey stud and ran Dean and Laughton’s cattle
in the gully for about twenty years from the 1860s. Edward Laughton was a pioneer of stock
routes from Queensland, and an early owner of Bracklyn (now Ivymeade) which was still
standing in Nilpinna Street, Burnside in 1997.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 5, 53.
Street name Garden Avenue
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the gardens of the Finnisbrook property.
The house is now at 20 Garden Avenue. Three acres along First Creek were bought by
William Murray, a nurseryman, in 1866, and were later leased to Chinese gardeners. Robert
Slape leased the gardens in 1908 and later bought two acres. The land later reverted to
paddocks until 1962 when it was subdivided.
All but seven acres around Finnisbrook were subdivided in 1952, and final subdivision was
done in 1970.
(See also Finniss Terrace, Burnside.)
Year in which street acquired present name c.1970
Sources of information
Tour Guide No. 4 Waterfall Gully, Burnside, item nos 5, 6.
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Street name Gardiner Court
Suburb Magill
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Probably named after John Gardner, farmer, during the 1840s and 1850s.
Note the different spelling.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Bio File
Street name Gartrell Street
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
William Street.
Origin of earlier name
When William Street was closed to allow for extensions to Burnside School the southern end
was re-named Gartrell Street.
(See William Street, Burnside.)
Origin of present name
Named after James Gartrell (1846-1916).
James Gartrell was owner of the nearby Fernilee Lodge which had been built by Dennison
Clarke. During his ownership the house was increased in size and the ornate tower was
added. He and Peter Wood were partners in a grocery business. Gartrell Memorial Church in
Rose Park was also named after James Gartrell who was a parishioner and benefactor.
(See also Burnside Court and Wood Grove, Burnside.)
Year in which street acquired present name c. 1976
Sources of information
Fullers Street Directory, 1976
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 26.
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Street name Giles Street
Suburb Magill
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Gilles Street.
Origin of earlier name
Shown as Gilles Street in 1924 Sales Brochure.
Origin of present name
Named after Charles Giles (1807-1887), nurseryman and fruit grower.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection.
Street name Giles Street
Suburb Toorak Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after William Giles (1792-1862).
William Giles was the second Adelaide Manager of the South Australian Company. The
South Australian Company owned Sections 274 and 275 which make up Toorak Gardens and
for many years it was part of Prescott’s Farm until subdivision from about 1912 onwards.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 160, 284, 295.
Street name Gill Terrace
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Thomas Gill (1816-1903).
Thomas Gill was a surveyor who supervised road works through the hills. His son, also
Thomas, wrote History and Topography of Glen Osmond which was published by the Glen
Osmond Institute in 1906.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 106, 310.
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Street name Gillard Drive
Suburb Rosslyn Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Joseph Gillard (1856-1926).
Joseph Gillard Jnr was manager of the cellars and vineyards at the Grange winery from 1869
to 1905, taking over full responsibility from Mary Penfold in 1884. (Not to be confused with
his father, Joseph Snr, of Sylvania vineyards of Norwood and Clarendon.)
Later Joseph Gillard sold the Penfolds Company his house (north west corner of The Parade
and Penfold Road) and his main vineyard in Rosslyn Park (bounded by Penfold Road, Park
Avenue, Edgcumbe Terrace and The Parade).
(For further information about Penfolds family and winery see Gordon Terrace and Mary
Penfold Drive, Rosslyn Park and Penfold Road, Magill.)
Year in which street acquired present name 1912
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 222.
Street name Gilles Road
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Milnes Road.
Origin of earlier name
Named after William Milne, owner of the house and property Sunnyside.
Origin of present name
Named after Osmond Gilles (1788-1866).
Osmond Gilles was the Colonial Treasurer. He built Glen Osmond Villa, and formed the Glen
Osmond Union Mining Company for the mining of silver lead on his property. The road runs
along the northern boundary of his property and his house which was renamed Woodley when
owned later by his brother Lewis still stands.
The mines are still present on the hillside above Glen Osmond and are registered as Grade ‘A’
items on the National Estate to commemorate the fact that they were the first metalliferous
mines in Australia. (Access to the mines on conducted tours can be arranged by contacting
the Burnside Council.)
(See also Glen Osmond Road, Eastwood and Woodley Road, Glen Osmond.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Colman, D. (ed), The First Hundred Years, p. 14.
Department of Mines, Glen Osmond Mines (brochure), p. 4.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 110, 168.
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Street name Glebe Road
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Townsend Street.
Origin of earlier name
Probably named after William Townsend, an early Mayor of Adelaide and member of
Parliament.
Origin of present name
Glebe - land attached to an ecclesiastical benefice, and held by incumbent during his tenure.
The road is on the northern boundary of the cemetery of St Saviour’s church
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 221.
Gill, T., The History & Topography of Glen Osmond, p. 1.
Street name Glen Osmond Road
Suburb Eastwood
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Osmond Gilles (1788-1866), Colonial Treasurer.
The road leads from the south parklands to Glen Osmond (Section 295) which was acquired
by Gilles about 1839.
Osmond Gilles’s name is also remembered in many other locations around Adelaide such as
Glen Osmond Road, Mount Osmond, Gilles Street (in the city), Gilles Plains and OG Road.
(See also Gilles Road and Woodley Road, Glen Osmond.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Hicks, V. S., O.G. The Colonial Treasurer.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 112-116.
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Street name Glen Osmond Road
Suburb Frewville
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Glen Osmond Road, Eastwood.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Glen Osmond Road
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Glen Osmond Road, Eastwood.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Glen Osmond Road
Suburb Glenunga
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Glen Osmond Road, Eastwood.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Glen Street
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Possibly named after Tom Glen.
Tom Glen, a winemaker, built wine cellars in 1868 for the Beaumont vineyards which were
centred on Beaumont House nearby at the top of Glynburn Road.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 157.
Street name Gleneagles Road
Suburb Mount Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly a made up name, from the glen leading up to the Eagle on the Hill Hotel.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Glenroy Road
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Glen Avenue.
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the Glen family of Beaumont.
Glen Avenue appeared on a subdivision of part of Beaumont, running off Devereux Road
between the original subsections 34 and 35. It was intended to perpetuate the association of
the Glen family with Beaumont.
Because there was another Glen Street in the area (Burnside), the name was changed to
Glenroy in recent years.
(See also Glen Street, Burnside.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Cleland, J. B., The Village of Beaumont, p. 31.
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Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Proceedings, vol. 50,
1948-49, p. 31.
Street name Glenunga Avenue
Suburb Glenunga
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Glenunga is a combination of English and Aboriginal words adopted as the name of his estate
by Daniel Ferguson, a pioneer of 1838, before it was cut up as a residential site:
Glen was chosen as the prefix, being the name of the adjacent suburb Glen Osmond,
Unga is an Aboriginal word meaning ‘near to’.
Glenunga Avenue goes through the original Ferguson estate.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 88.
Street name Glyde Street
Suburb Beulah Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Ruthven Street.
Origin of earlier name
Named after John Ruthven, an early builder in Beulah Park, whose family home was at 44
Glyde Street.
Origin of present name
Named after the Hon William Dening Glyde, miller and MLC.
Miller’s ten-roomed house which was at the corner of Glyde Street and Howard Street became
Newton’s Ink Factory and was then replaced by a block of flats.
His brother Samuel Dening Glyde was one time Mayor of Kensington and Norwood.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 255.
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Street name Glyde Street
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Lavington Glyde (1857-1884) MP, and seven times a Minister of the Crown.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Glynburn Road
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Beaumont Road.
Origin of earlier name
The original road to Beaumont Common.
The words beau and mont derive from the French words for ‘beautiful’ and ‘mount’ or
‘mountain’.
Origin of present name
Named by Councillor M. Perry of Burnside as a compromise between the names ‘Burnside’
and ‘Glynde’, after much wrangling between the Burnside and Campbelltown Councils when
trying to adopt one name for the whole road.
Year in which street acquired present name 1964
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection, (early street plan).
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 35.
Colman, D. (ed), The First Hundred Years, p. 14.
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Street name Glynburn Road
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Glynde Road at the northern end.
Burnside Road at the southern end.
Origin of earlier name
The name Burnside was applied by Peter Anderson to his property (Section 320), which was
half purchased and half leased from the South Australian Company in 1839. Based on the
Scottish word for creek it is the core suburb of that name in the Burnside Council area.
There is also a locality in Scotland with the name Burnside.
Origin of present name
See Glynburn Road, Beaumont.
Year in which street acquired present name 1964
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 35.
Street name Glynburn Road
Suburb Erindale
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Burnside Road.
Origin of earlier name
See Glynburn Road, Beaumont.
Origin of present name
See Glynburn Road, Beaumont.
Year in which street acquired present name 1964
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 35.
Street name Glynburn Road
Suburb Hazelwood Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Beaumont Road.
Origin of earlier name
See Glynburn Road, Beaumont.
Origin of present name
See Glynburn Road, Burnside.
Year in which street acquired present name 1964
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 35.
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Street name Glynburn Road
Suburb Kensington Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Fenn’s Road.
Origin of earlier name
Named after Charles Fenn who owned the eastern end of Section 300 in the 1860s.
Section 300 was the portion of land north of Kensington Road and west of Fenn’s Road.
Origin of present name
See Glynburn Road, Beaumont.
Year in which street acquired present name 1964
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 35.
Street name Glynburn Road
Suburb Kensington Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Burnside Road.
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Glynburn Road, Beaumont.
Year in which street acquired present name 1964
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 35.
Street name Glynburn Road
Suburb Leabrook
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Burnside Road.
Origin of earlier name
See Glynburn Road, Beaumont.
Origin of present name
See Glynburn Road, Beaumont.
Year in which street acquired present name 1964
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 35.
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Street name Godfrey Terrace
Suburb Erindale
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Downer Street.
Origin of earlier name
Named after Frank Downer (d. 1938).
Frank Downer’s Tudor style house facing Glynburn Road was built between Godfrey Terrace
and Stanley Street in 1905. The stable is now a house at 54 Godfrey Terrace. Mrs Charlotte
Downer’s father was Hon A. B. Murray of Murray Park, Magill.
Origin of present name
Named after Roy Charles Godfrey.
Roy Godfrey was a builder in Rose Park who bought two acres in Erindale in 1919.
Year in which street acquired present name c. 1919
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 62.
Street name Godfrey Terrace
Suburb Leabrook
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
See Godfrey Terrace, Erindale.
Origin of earlier name
See Godfrey Terrace, Erindale.
Origin of present name
See Godfrey Terrace, Erindale.
Year in which street acquired present name c. 1919
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 62.
Street name Goldsack Street
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Redman Goldsack (1814-83).
Redman Goldsack was a smith and farrier with a shop on Glen Osmond Road. He made and
repaired miners tools of all descriptions.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 106.
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Street name Gordo Avenue
Suburb Wattle Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after a type of grape more correctly called muscat gordo blanco.
Named by the members of the syndicate which developed the subdivision: K. J. Powell, the
Trim brothers and Stern Antonis.
Other streets in the vicinity with names associated with grape varieties are Frontignac,
Grenache, Muscatel and Reisling.
(See also Kamali Avenue, Wattle Park.)
Year in which street acquired present name Late 1960s
Sources of information
Evans, L., Pocket Guide to Australian Wines.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 222.
Street name Gordon Place
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Possibly named after Adam Lindsay Gordon.
Adam Lindsay Gordon was National Poet of Australia. He was a member of the South
Australian Mounted Police in the south east of South Australia and became well known as a
steeple chase rider. Later he entered Parliament.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
New Age Encyclopaedia, 1921.
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Street name Gordon Terrace
Suburb Rosslyn Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Thomas Gordon, accountant.
Thomas Gordon was the accountant in the syndicate that bought the land in this section 1877.
The land had previously been a paddock belonging to Dr Christopher Penfold of The Grange
who died in 1870. Dr Penfold’s daughter Georgina had married Thomas Francis Highland in
1861 and he was responsible for the distribution in Victoria of the wine from the estate. On
Dr Penfold’s death Thomas Highland became one of the controllers of the business.
And in 1877 he sold some of the land west of Penfold Road to the syndicate which subdivided
and sold the blocks the next year. The syndicate comprised James Gartrell, merchant, Thomas
Gordon, accountant, William Taylor, draper, Alexander McGeorge, draper, and David
Tweedy, land agent. William Taylor had the nearby Taylor Terrace named after him.
(For further information about Dr Penfold, see Penfold Road, Magill, and Mary Penfold
Drive, Rosslyn Park.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 222, 229.
Street name Gothic Avenue
Suburb Stonyfell
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown..
Possibly named after the vessel Gothic on which Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh
visited Australia in 1954. The next street to the east is Edinburgh Avenue.
(See also Edinburgh Avenue, Stonyfell.)
Year in which street acquired present name c. 1954.
Sources of information
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Street name Goyder Street
Suburb Erindale
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after one of the early horse-tram drivers.
Other streets in the vicinity with names associated with horse tram drivers are Jarvis and
Wallace.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection.
Street name Grandview Grove
Suburb Dulwich
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly the developers' poetic license because of the view of the hills?
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Lane, Peter, information in possession of Burnside Library Local History Collection.
Street name Grandview Grove
Suburb Toorak Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly the developers' poetic license because of the view of the hills?
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Lane, Peter, information in possession of Burnside Library Local History Collection.
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Street name Grange Avenue
Suburb Rosslyn Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the vineyards and old stone cottage called The Grange, built by Dr Christopher
Rawson Penfold who founded the great wine empire in 1844.
Rosslyn Park was originally Dr Penfold’s paddock.
(For further information about Dr Penfold see Gordon Terrace and Mary Penfold Drive,
Rosslyn Park, and Penfold Road, Magill.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 221.
Street name Grant Avenue
Suburb Rose Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after John Henry Grant, auditor of the South Australian Company.
The South Australian Company owned Section 262 and when it was subdivided the suburb
was named after the Chairman Sir John Rose. Other streets in the vicinity with names
associated with the South Australian Company are:
Partners Gurney, Close, Webb, Swaine
Auditors Watson, Grant
Solicitor Hewitt.
Year in which street acquired present name 1876
Sources of information
Mortlock Library (SA), South Australian Company Annual Reports.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 284.
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Street name Grant Avenue
Suburb Toorak Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Grant Avenue, Rose Park.
Year in which street acquired present name 1876
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 284.
Street name Greengate Crescent
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Shelley Terrace.
Origin of earlier name
Probably named after the poet Shelley.
Other streets in the area which are named after poets are Milton and Tennyson.
Origin of present name
Possibly named after the Greengate Inn which was built by William Rogers of Tusmore just
before 1840.
However it is not clear why a road so far from the inn should carry its name, nor why the
name was changed. The inn was located on Section 292 which is now Linden Park, and is
commemorated by a plaque on the south side of Greenhill Road near Verdale Avenue. It was
the venue for the first meeting of the Burnside Council in 1856 and finally demolished in
1872 and the plaque commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the Council.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 88.
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Street name Greenham Avenue
Suburb Magill
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the Greenham family.
In 1865 a twenty-acre estate on the hillside above Old Norton Summit Road and Third Creek
was bought by Henry Greenham (1811-72). He built a house and planted a vineyard. After
his death his widow and children ran the estate until the youngest son Jesse came of age in
1890 when it was subdivided. Sir Thomas Playford’s father bought the Third Creek orchard
and Jesse Greenham (1869-1950) bought the Home Park estate. Four years later he married
Rosina Armson.
Jesse Greenham established the Woodford Nursery and a large commercial rose garden from
where roses were sent in bud as far as the Melbourne market. On his death in 1950 the house
was used as a hospital for a short while. The house was finally demolished and the estate
subdivided in 1971 leading to the creation of Greenham and Armson Avenues.
(See also Armson Avenue, Magill.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 217.
Street name Greenhill Road
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the hill at the head of the road known as Green Hill since at least 1849.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Lane, Peter, information in possession of Burnside Library Local History Collection.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 184.
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Street Name Greenhill Road
Suburb Dulwich
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Asylum Road, Parkside Road.
Origin of earlier name
Asylum Road - The road running alongside the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum which between 1846
and 1852 was in a building about 60 metres west of Conyngham Street. Between 1852 and
1870 the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum was in a building on North Terrace near the south-eastern
side of the current Botanic Gardens, until the Parkside Lunatic Asylum (later the Parkside
Mental Hospital and now Glenside Hospital) was built in 1870.
Parkside Road - The road running alongside the parklands.
Origin of present name
See Greenhill Road, Burnside.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Colman, D. (ed), The First Hundred Years, map inside front cover shows Parkside Road.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 265 refers to Park Terrace.
Street Name Greenhill Road
Suburb Eastwood
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Devonshire Terrace, Park Terrace.
Origin of earlier name
Devonshire Terrace - Unknown.
Park Terrace - The road running alongside the parklands.
Origin of present name
See Greenhill Road, Burnside.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street Name Greenhill Road
Suburb Glenside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Parkside Road, Asylum Road.
Origin of earlier name
See Greenhill Road, Dulwich.
Origin of present name
See Greenhill Road, Burnside.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Greenhill Road
Suburb Hazelwood Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Greenhill Road, Burnside.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Greenhill Road
Suburb Linden Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Greenhill Road, Burnside.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Greenhill Road
Suburb Toorak Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Parkside Road.
Origin of earlier name
See Greenhill Road, Dulwich.
Origin of present name
See Greenhill Road, Burnside.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Greenhill Road
Suburb Tusmore
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Greenhill Road, Burnside.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Grenache Avenue
Suburb Wattle Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after a type of grape.
Other streets in the vicinity with names associated with grape varieties are Frontignac, Gordo,
Muscatel and Reisling.
Named by the members of the syndicate which developed the subdivision: K. J. Powell, the
Trim brothers and Stern Antonis.
(See also Kamali Avenue, Wattle Park.)
Year in which street acquired present name Late 1960s
Sources of information
Evans, L., Pocket Guide to Australian Wines, p. 16.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 222.
Street name Grevillea Crescent
Suburb Stonyfell
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after a genus of Australian trees.
Other streets in the vicinity with names associated with Australian species of trees are Acacia,
Eucalypt, Karri, Kurrajong and Waratah.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Burnside Street Names and their Origins
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Street name Grey Avenue
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Penarth Avenue.
Origin of earlier name
The illustration on page 150 of The Paddocks Beneath shows that Penarth Avenue was
originally planned to cross Beaumont Common and join Dashwood Road. This never
happened.
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after Captain (later Sir) George Grey (d. 1898), explorer and later Governor of
South Australia.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection.
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 92.
Joy, W., The Explorers.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 150.
Street name Guilford Street
Suburb Kensington Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after the town of Guildford in Surrey, England, but the spelling differs. Other
streets in the vicinity with names associated with British towns are Bedford, Ellesmere,
Pembroke, Uxbridge and Walsall.
Year in which street acquired present name
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Burnside Street Names and their Origins
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Street name Gulfview Avenue
Suburb St Georges
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Self explanatory. Affords a view of St Vincent Gulf.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Gumbrae Avenue
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Probably a made up word using the Scottish brae for a ‘hill side’ or ‘steep bank’ covered with
‘gum’ trees.
At a land sale in December 1955 blocks reached nearly £800 – a price which everyone said
could never be realised.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Burnside News-Review, December 1955.
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Burnside Street Names and their Origins
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Street name Gurney Road
Suburb Dulwich
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Mr J. Gurney, director of the South Australian Company.
The South Australian Company owned Section 262 and when it was subdivided the suburb
was named after the Chairman Sir John Rose. Other streets in the vicinity with names
associated with the South Australian Company are:
Partners Gurney, Close, Webb, Swaine
Auditors Watson, Grant
Solicitor Hewitt.
Gurney Road passes through Rose Park and Dulwich.
Year in which street acquired present name 1876
Sources of information
Mortlock Library (SA), South Australian Company Annual Reports.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 284.
Street name Gurney Road
Suburb Rose Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Gurney Road, Dulwich.
Year in which street acquired present name 1876
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 284.
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Burnside Street Names and their Origins
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Street name Gurrs Road
Suburb Beulah Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Cranbourne Terrace.
Origin of earlier name
Cranbourne was the original name for part of what is now Beulah Park.
Origin of present name
Named after Joshua Gurr.
Joshua Gurr (1819-1910), was an ironmonger and shareholder in the Burra Copper Mine. He
purchased 20 acres in this area and his house was between Birnie Avenue and Gurrs Road. In
about 1920 the vineyard and other parts of the property were subdivided and sold.
Year in which street acquired present name c. 1920
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 248, 251.
Street name Gurrs Road
Suburb Kensington Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Cranbourne Terrace.
Origin of earlier name
See Gurrs Road, Beulah Park.
Origin of present name
See Gurrs Road, Beulah Park.
Year in which street acquired present name
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