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Street name Palomino Road
Suburb Auldana
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly some connection with the horse of this type.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Pam Street
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Park Avenue
Suburb Rosslyn Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Probably because either:
a park with grass, trees, and tennis courts fronts onto the road, or
the road bisects Rosslyn Park.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Park Crescent
Suburb Linden Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Probably because it is a crescent shaped road skirting a small park.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Park Road
Suburb Kensington Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Kensington Park Road.
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Probably because either:
it describes the open park type of country when the area which was previously known as
Shipster’s Paddock was first subdivided in 1865, or
the road bisects Kensington Park.
Year in which street acquired present name 1865
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 245.
Street name Park Street
Suburb Magill
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Probably because it was the road leading into the north side of the Home Park estate of
Patrick Auld as can be seen on the sales brochure of 1924.
Year in which street acquired present name About 1920
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 214, 215 (map).
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Burnside Street Names and their Origins
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Street name Parkstone Avenue
Suburb Dulwich
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after either:
a family name, or
the English seaside resort of Parkstone near the Isle of Wight.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Patrick Auld Drive
Suburb Auldana
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Patrick Auld (1811-1886).
In the early 1840s Patrick Auld purchased Section 343 and other land on the rising ground
above Magill in the area to the east of Penfold Road and north of what is now The Parade (but
which at that time was only a track later called Auldana Road). The property totalled some
400 acres on which he built a twelve-roomed stone house which he called Home Park.
However two years of financial troubles were made even worse by the gold rush to Victoria in
1854. He was forced to subdivide the Home Park property and the vineyards that he had
planted on the lower lying land. He then built a smaller house Bushy Park higher up the hill,
and planted more vines there.
Patrick Auld produced wines under the name Emu Wines but in later years the winery and
suburb became known as Auldana.
(See also Bushy Park Drive, Auldana.)
Year in which street acquired present name 1980
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 218, 219.
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Burnside Street Names and their Origins
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Street name Paynter Street
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Wood Street.
Origin of earlier name
Possibly named after the Wood family of Linden Park.
(See also Wood Grove, Hazelwood Park.)
Origin of present name
Named after Samuel Arundell Paynter (1828-1902) mine agent of Moonta Mines who lived in
Burnside.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Pellew Avenue
Suburb Auldana
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Thomas Pellew (1815-1884) or his family.
Thomas Pellew, Cornishman, was an early settler of Magill, living in a house next to the
Wesleyan Chapel and working as a carrier and omnibus driver. He was succeeded by his son
Joseph Henry Pellew and grandsons ‘Nip’ Pellew, a well-known South Australian cricketer,
and Lancelot Vivien Pellew, CMG, magistrate.
Year in which street acquired present name 1980
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 200.
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Street name Pembroke Street
Suburb Kensington Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Probably named after the town of Pembroke in Wales. Other nearby streets which are also
named after British towns are Bedford, Ellesmere, Guildford, Uxbridge and Walsall.
It should be noted that Pembroke Street was so named long before the Girton School changed
its name to Pembroke, which name comes from Pembroke College of Oxford University.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Pemberton Lane
Suburb Beulah Park
See Page P – 18.
Street name Penarth Avenue
Suburb Beaumont
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Robe Terrace.
Origin of earlier name
Probably named after Frederick Robe who was Governor of South Australia in the 1840s.
Origin of present name
Information received from a resident of the street recalls a conversation in the 1950s with a
person leasing Norley Bank who changed the name to Penarth House from which it is
presumed the road received its name (or vice versa).
The diagram on page 150 of The Paddocks Beneath shows Penarth Avenue extending the full
distance between Cooper Place and Dashwood Road, excepting Beaumont Common in the
middle. The road has never been built to this planning design. Norley Bank was a house just
north of Beaumont Common on land that stretched between Vansittart Place and Penarth
Avenue.
(As the map is based on the properties of many years earlier it seems unlikely that a
conversation on the matter could have been held as recently as the 1950s. Richard House)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 188.
Private information from Gladys Byfield, once resident of 3 Vansittart Place, Beaumont.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 150.
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Street name Penfold Road
Suburb Magill
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Christopher Rawson Penfold (1811-1870) and his wife Mary.
The Penfolds acquired 500 acres in the 1840s. The estate stretched south from Magill mainly
to the east of Penfold Road through the area known as The Grange to Kensington Road and
included part of what is now Rosslyn Park.
The success of the family in grape growing eventually led to the establishment of the Penfold
Winery and the famous Penfold’s Grange Hermitage which came from the Grange Vineyards.
The last vintage was crushed at the Magill cellars in 1972 and subdivision in the early 1980s
by Tooth & Co, the then owners, resulted in the survival of only the core of the vineyard
including the winery and the Penfolds cottage.
(For further information about the Penfolds, see also Gordon Terrace, Mary Penfold Drive
and Hyland Terrace , Rosslyn Park.)
Year in which street acquired present name 1924
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 221-224.
Street name Penfold Road
Suburb Rosslyn Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Magill Terrace.
Origin of earlier name
The map on page 215 of The Paddocks Beneath by Elizabeth Warburton shows this road as
Magill Terrace in 1924.
Origin of present name
See Penfold Road, Magill.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 215.
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Street name Penfold Road
Suburb Stonyfell
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Emu Terrace.
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Penfold Road, Magill.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Penfold Road
Suburb Wattle Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Magill Terrace.
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Penfold Road, Magill.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Penong Avenue
Suburb Burnside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Penong is also the name of a small place just west of Ceduna. Possibly the owner of this land
in Burnside also had a connection with the place Penong and commemorated the name when
subdividing. The name is based on the Aboriginal word meaning ‘rock hole’.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Cockburn, Rodney, What’s in a Name, p. 172.
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Street name Pepper Street
Suburb Magill
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the Pepper brothers.
Henry Pepper was a timber carter and bus driver. John Pepper was a timber carter. Both grew
up and lived in Magill.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 203.
Street name Pepperbox Court
Suburb Glenside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the Knoxville Jubilee Bible Church.
The church at the northern end of Allinga Avenue east of this sub-development had this local
nickname because of its appearance.
Year in which street acquired present name 1998
Sources of information
Burnside Historical Society Newsletter, vol. 10 no. 3 Sept. 1990, vol. 18 no. 3. pp.12-14.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 149.
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Street name Perry Lane
Suburb Leabrook
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Charles Augustus Perry (1813-1884).
Charles Perry and his wife and daughter Mary Ann arrived in South Australia 1839. He was a
builder and contractor and built the first bridge over the Port River and a number of other
bridges on the eastern plains. Perry leased this north western corner of Section 299 from the
South Australian Company and built a house known as The Wattles. One of his daughters
married George the son of Henry de Mole of The Waldrons (see Moorcroft Court, Erindale).
Year in which street acquired present name 1990
Sources of information
Corporation of the City of Burnside, Minutes, Feb 1990.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 63.
Street name Perkins Court
Suburb Magill
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly named after either:
Charles Perkins, Burnside Councillor for Knightsbridge 1882-1885, or
Charles Perkins, Aboriginal leader who lived in Kensington Park during his childhood.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Peroomba Avenue
Suburb Kensington Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Probably some connection with the house Peroomba in Beulah Park.
(See also Douglas Avenue, Beulah Park.)
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 254.
Street name Philip Avenue
Suburb Leabrook
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Second Street.
Origin of earlier name
The second street west of Burnside (Glynburn) Road in the original subdivision.
Origin of present name
Named after Philip Newland.
Philip Newland was the second son of Simpson Newland of Undelcarra.
(For further details of Simpson Newland see Newland Road.)
Year in which street acquired present name c. 1970
Sources of information
Burnside Library, Local History Collection.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 71.
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Street name Pine Close
Suburb Glenside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the pine trees in the vicinity.
Other streets in the Amber Woods development with names associated with European trees are
Cedar Crescent, Olive Close and Plane Tree Avenue. Prior to subdivision the area was a
wooded recreation area of the Glenside Hospital and the names were selected because many of
the original trees were retained.
Year in which street acquired present name 1994
Sources of information
Private information from Andrew Ward (Burnside Library).
Corporation of the City of Burnside, Planning and Building Committee, Minutes, 8 Nov.
1994.
Street name Plane Tree Avenue
Suburb Glenside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after the plane trees in the vicinity.
Other streets in the Amber Woods development with names associated with European trees are
Cedar Crescent, Olive Close and Pine Close. Prior to subdivision the area was a wooded
recreation area of the Glenside Hospital and the names were selected because many of the
original trees were retained.
Year in which street acquired present name 1994
Sources of information
Corporation of the City of Burnside, Planning and Building Committee, Minutes, 8 Nov.
1994.
Private information from Andrew Ward (Burnside Library).
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Street name Playford Street
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia for 26 years (1940-1966).
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Private information from Robert Chapman.
Street name Portrush Road
Suburb Beulah Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Kensington Terrace.
Origin of earlier name
Probably given this name because it passed the suburb of Kensington as well as Beulah Park.
Kensington is a fashionable suburb of London.
Origin of present name
Named after the town of Portrush on the north east coast of Ireland near the Giant’s
Causeway.
It is believed the road was named by Nathaniel Knox (1797-1880) after his home in Ireland.
The suburb of Knoxville (now Glenside) also took his name.
The name Portrush Road was originally given to a much shorter length of the road, but was
extended to absorb names, such as Wellington Road near the junction with Payneham Road,
which had been used on different sections of the same road.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Advertiser, 13 Sept. 1982.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 145.
Street name Portrush Road
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Portrush Road, Beulah Park.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Portrush Road
Suburb Glenside
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Portrush Road, Beulah Park.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Portrush Road
Suburb Glenunga
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Portrush Road, Beulah Park.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Portrush Road
Suburb Linden Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Portrush Road, Beulah Park.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Portrush Road
Suburb St Georges
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Portrush Road, Beulah Park.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Street name Portrush Road
Suburb Tusmore
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Portrush Road, Beulah Park.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Prescott Terrace
Suburb Rose Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after William Prescott (1800-1876).
William Prescott arrived in South Australia in 1838 with his wife and children and leased
Sections 262 and 275, (now Rose Park and Dulwich) from the South Australian Company.
He cleared the land and established a farm with the help of his family. One of his daughters
Eliza Christiana (1833-1923) lived her whole life on the farm and saw it gradually being
subdivided.
The final remnant of Prescott’s Farm was two acres that had been bought by Eliza in 1911 on
the east side of Prescott Terrace in between Watson and Alexandra Avenues.
Family members built homes on this land and the last remnants of the farm survived until
1938. There is now a Burnside Historical Society plaque on the roadside commemorating the
location of the farm.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Private information from Richard House.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 278, 284.
Street name Prescott Terrace
Suburb Toorak Gardens
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
See Prescott Terrace, Rose Park.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Pridmore Road
Suburb Glen Osmond
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Horace Vernon Pridmore (1863-1907).
Horace Pridmore was the second son of an old established family from Coventry in England,
who came to South Australia in 1883 followed eight years later by his brother Cyril Eustace
(1874-1925). They bought the Woodley house and estate in Glen Osmond, and later another
property The Wattles at McLaren Vale. Horace made improvements to the Woodley winery
and vineyards of about 30 acres which were already established in this area but somewhat run
down, and was an enthusiast of the wine industry, being President of the South Australia
Winegrowers Association three times.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, pp. 116-118.
Street name Primrose Terrace
Suburb Rosslyn Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Early residents of Rosslyn Park refer to evening primroses growing in the area which may
explain the name.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
Burnside Historical Society Meeting tape recording, no. 64, 12 May 1986.
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Street name Pring Lane
Suburb Dulwich
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
None.
Origin of earlier name
When the suburb was laid out this was an unnamed night cart lane. The Burnside Council
later decided that the lanes should have names so that they could be more easily identified.
Origin of present name
Named after Captain Daniel Pring, RN.
Daniel Pring was an absentee owner who was originally granted Section 263, now Dulwich,
but leased it to a cattle dealer. On his death in 1846 it passed to his wife who sold it in 1850.
Year in which street acquired present name 1995
Sources of information
Corporation of the City of Burnside, Report from Manager Engineering Services to Works
Committee, 21 Aug. 1995.
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 274.
Street name Purnana Avenue
Suburb St Georges
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Unknown.
Possibly Aboriginal.
Year in which street acquired present name
Sources of information
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Street name Pemberton Lane
Suburb Beulah Park
Earlier name(s) if different from present name
Origin of earlier name
Origin of present name
Named after Edward Abson Pemberton, builder.
Edward Pemberton emigrated from Lancashire and built many fine houses and cottages in
Beulah Park. He used red bricks from the nearby Reedy’s brickyard on Howard Street (now
re-established as Mellor Park) and many of the cottages dating from 1894 to 1896 were still
standing a hundred years later. They can mainly be found in the blocks bounded by Portrush
Road, Beulah Road, Matilda and Union Streets.
He worked for nearly 30 years as a contract builder in the area and eventually bought four
acres in the vicinity of the corner of Beulah and Vine Streets which he subdivided to build
further houses in his own style.
Edward’s son Harold was a Burnside Councillor from 1924-30.
(See also Ruthven Lane and Reedy Lane, Beulah Park.)
Year in which street acquired present name 2000
Sources of information
Warburton, Elizabeth, The Paddocks Beneath, p. 256.
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