Bedford Park, South Australia
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Bedford Park () is a southern suburb of Adelaide in South Australia.
The Hancock family established a homestead and farm at the foot of the Adelaide Hills in the mid 19th century. A family name from an earlier generation leant its name to the property of Bedford which was later changed to Bedford Park. In 1917, 400 acres of the property was purchased by the South Australian Government and a tuberculosis sanatorium was built. Initially housing World War I soldiers the sanatorium was expanded until, by 1924, it had 74 beds and was a self supporting farm with pigs, chickens , orchards and grain production. [1] The sanatorium was demolished and Flinders University built in its place in the 1960s.
Bedford Park is the home of Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre. It is part of the City of Mitcham, with the north west corner located in the City of Marion and is split across the state electorates of Mitchell and Davenport. It is in the federal Division of Boothby.
[edit] References
- ^ Gunton, Eric (November 1986). Tracing Our Towns, Stories of Same Named Places in South Australia and the United Kingdom. South Australia: Self Published, p.9. ISBN 0-959-20942-5.
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
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