Norwood, South Australia

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Norwood
Adelaide, South Australia

The Norwood Town Hall on The Parade.

Population:

5,358 (2001 census)

Postcode:

5067

Property Value:

AUD $470,000

Location:

4 km from Adelaide

LGA:

City of Norwood Payneham St Peters

Suburbs around Norwood
College Park	Stepney	Maylands
Kent Town	Norwood	Beulah Park Kensington
Adelaide	Rose Park	Toorak Gardens

Norwood (34°55′S, 138°38′E) is a suburb of Adelaide, about 4 kilometres east of the Adelaide Central Business District. The suburb is in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters (the oldest South Australian local government municipality, with a city population over 34,000).

The suburb consists of four segments, being divided into north and south by the major thoroughfare of The Parade, and east and west by Osmond Terrace. It is bounded on the south by Kensington Road, on the north by Magill Road, on the east by Portrush Road and on the west by Fullarton Road. It is a leafy suburb lined with plane trees and grand buildings. It is now a sought-after suburb to live in, but this was not always the case.

1 Residents
2 Attractions
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Residents

Norwood was previously a working class suburb and attracted many European migrants post-World War 2. It still has a very high concentration of people of Italian background. This can be evidenced in the restaurants and fashion boutiques of the Parade. The working class nature can be ascertained by the politics. It tends to be more left-wing in nature than the other eastern suburbs around it.

Many famous South Australians have resided in Norwood; these being women's rights campaigner, Catherine Helen Spence; former Premier Don Dunstan; Mary MacKillop (a candidate for Australia's first saint), writers C.J. Dennis and May Gibbs, and film director Mario Andreacchio

It is also home to a South Australian National Football League (Australian Rules Football) team, the Norwood Redlegs.

[edit] Attractions

William St in Norwood, facing west towards the Adelaide central business district.

The Parade contains the business centre of the suburb, which consists of some professional personnel but it is more famous (as is Norwood) for it restaurants, cafes, fashion boutiques and hairdressers. Each year The Parade hosts the Nowood Parade Food and Wine Festival, attracting over 80,000 visitors.

Osmond Terrace is a grand, wide street with two story houses and monuments to the fallen ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand soldiers that fought in World Wars 1 and 2).

Without doubt, the most significant land mark in Norwood (although actually in Beulah Park) is Clayton-Wesly Uniting Church on the corner of Portrush Road and The Parade. The church, visible all the way up The Parade, was built over 150 years ago.

Saint Bartholomew's (St Bart's) in Norwood and St Matthew's in nearby Kensington are two churches with a close association with each other, with three church ministers involved in both congregations. They are both evangelical and conservative Anglican churches, with a large number of young adult members.

Saint Ignatius Catholic Parish Church, built by the Jesuits in the 1860s and finished by 1872 is also a significant feature in the suburb. The accompanying presbytry housed Mary Mackillop whilst she was in hiding after her (temporary) excommunication by Bishop Shiel.