Thorngate, South Australia

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Thorngate (34°53′S 138°35′E) is an inner northern suburb of Adelaide 4km from the CBD, in the state of South Australia, Australia and falls under the City of Prospect. It is adjacent to North Adelaide, Prospect, Medindie and Fitzroy. The post code for Thorngate is 5082. It is bounded to the north by Carter Street, to the south by Fitzroy Terrace, in the west by Prospect Road and the east by Main North Road. Thorngate is essentially a residential suburb, overlooking the North Adelaide Parklands. It is one of the smallest but wealthiest suburbs in Adelaide and has only six streets within its boundaries:

Carter Street
Churcher Street
Fitroy Terrace
Main North Road
Prospect Road
Thorngate Street

This small suburb is one of South Australia's most expensive. Although sales are rare, houses on Fitzroy Terrace and Churcher Street were valued well over $1 million in 2006. Fitzroy Terrace in Thorngate lays claim to the first seven houses on this exclusive road, although there are two small homes and one red-brick house over two blocks. Mansions in Churcher Street, as with Fitzroy Terrace and most homes in the suburb, rarely come on the market.

1 History
2 Facilities
3 Transport
4 Politics

[edit] History

It is thought to be named after the original land grantee John Batty Thorngate of Gosport, Hampshire, England, who took up the grant in 1840. It had previously been a part of the suburb of Fitzroy. It mainly consists of expansive 19th century multi-storey mansions and leafy European tree-lined streets, which were the abode of upper-class early South Australian settlers, who lived away from the noise of Adelaide city where the working class lived in cramped cottages.

[edit] Facilities

As Thorngate merely consists of four residential streets, there are no non-residential facilities directly within the suburb. The closest school in the area is the Catholic boys Blackfriars Priory School, and the public Prospect Primary School, both in Prospect. There is a boutique shopping strip on Prospect Road, further north in Prospect, while most other facilities can be easily accessed by entering North Adelaide.