Norwood, South Australia
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| Norwood Adelaide, South Australia |
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 The Norwood Town Hall on The Parade. |
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| Population: | 5,358 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 5067 | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $470,000 | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 4 km (2 mi) from Adelaide | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Norwood Payneham St Peters | ||||||||||||
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Norwood () 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.
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[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 and bohemian character 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
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 [check spelling] 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 in the 1860s by the Society of Jesus or more commonly referred to as Jesuits and finished by 1872 is also a significant feature in the suburb. The accompanying presbytry housed Mary MacKillop, foundress of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, where she took refuge after her (temporary) excommunication by Bishop Shiel.
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[edit] External links
- Norwood, South Australia is at coordinates Coordinates:
- City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters
- Norwood Redlegs Football Team
- Sisters of Saint Joseph of The Sacred Heart
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