Walkley Heights, South Australia

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Walkley Heights Adelaide, South Australia
Walkely Heights reserve
Population:	3224 (2006)[1]
Established:	1995
Postcode:	5098
Property Value:	AUD $360,500 (2007)[2]
LGA:	City of Salisbury
Suburbs around Walkley Heights: Ingle Farm Para Vista Pooraka Walkley Heights Valley View Northfield Oakden Gilles Plains

Walkley Heights is a newly-built residential subdivision 15 km north of Adelaide. The suburb is located on land formerly comprising the prison farm for Yatala Labour Prison, and includes fifty-five hectares of land formerly owned by R. M. Williams which was compulsorily acquired during the time of former State Premier Sir Thomas Playford^[3]. The suburb ( and one adjacent main road ) is named after John Walkley, an early pioneer in South Australia^[4]

The suburb had a population, in 2001, of only 713^[5] increasing to 3,224 by 2006.

A small shopping centre at the end of Homestead Avenue has a Foodland supermarket, a pizza shop, a bakery, a Salvation Army opportunity shop, a beauty salon and a doctor's surgery. Also there is a childcare centre and kindergarten.

[edit] Environment

The suburb occupies 1.5 square kilometres of land either side of the Dry Creek linear park which features mature river red gums, recent landscaped plantings, and the remains of an old stockman's hut. Within the linear park is the Walkley Heights reserve where mallee box grassy woodland is actively being conserved under the Urban forest biodiversity program.^[6]

[edit] See also

• List of Adelaide suburbs

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Walkley Heights, South Australia is at coordinates 34°50′20″S 138°38′17″E / -34.839, 138.638 (Walkley Heights, South Australia)Coordinates: 34°50′20″S 138°38′17″E / -34.839, 138.638 (Walkley Heights, South Australia)