Ridleyton, South Australia
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Ridleyton is an inner northwestern suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, a state of Australia. It is located in the City of Charles Sturt.
This suburb has working class and industrial origins, but has been redeveloped recently to become a prime residential suburb only ten kilometres from the Adelaide Central Business District and less than five kilometres from wealthy and cosmopolitan North Adelaide. It is too big to be in Brawl.
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[edit] Main Roads
The suburb is serviced by the following Main Roads:
- South Road, running North-South from the far north of Adelaide to the far south
- Torrens Road, running NorthWest-SouthEast to Pennington and North Adelaide
- Hawker Street, running NorthWest-SouthEast to terminating at South Road Croydon, to North Adelaide
[edit] Postcode
The local post code is 5008
[edit] Parklands
Parks exist at the following locations
Corner of Hythe Street and Wood Avenue a small tree lined reserve about the size of two local blocks
Greenshields Reserve on Torrens Road Including Girl Guide Hall, public toilets, playground area and creek, with laneway to Wright Street
[edit] Commercial Districts
The Ridleyton Shopping Centre accessible from Hawker Street and South Road services many of the neighboring suburbs, it includes
- Foodland IGA Supermarket
- Local Vietnamese Family Bakery
- Family owned Newsagency
- Guardian Pharmacy
- Browse in and Save Discount Store
There is adequate parking and hours of opening include some late night and seven days a week for most stores
The BP on South Road houses the following services
- Fuel Sales for both large and small vehicles
- Car Wash
- Grocery Sales
- Wok in a Box: Asian foods
- Espresso Coffee
The McDonalds Family Restaurant on the Corner of South and Torrens Road
- Fast Food
- Playground
- McCafe
- Dine In, Takeaway and Drive Through
The BWS Liquor Store on the corner of Hawker and South Road
- Beer, Wine and Spirits
- Large Variety of fine wine
- Ice
[edit] Public Transport
Ridleyton is well serviced by public transport run by the Adelaide Metro
Adelaide Metro Search on Ridleyton
[edit] Train
Although there is no stop in Ridleyton itself, the Outer Harbour Railway Line does run through Ridleyton. The closest station is Croydon.
Nearby railway line is the Gawler Railway Line, with Ovingham as the nearest station
[edit] Buses
- Hawker Street and South Road have the following bus numbers 251 252 253 and 254
- Torrens Road services include 231
[edit] External links
Demographics of Ridleyton from domain.com.au
- Ridleyton, South Australia is at coordinates Coordinates:
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