| Kinlyside Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |
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| Established: | 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 2913 | ||||||||||||
| District: | Gungahlin | ||||||||||||
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Kinlyside is a designated suburb in Gungahlin, Canberra. The land designated for the suburb has not yet been released for development by the Australian Capital Territory’s Land and Development Agency (LDA).
According to the ACT’s Planning and Land Authority, the suburb is named after George Kendall Kinlyside.
From a well known pioneer family in the Ginninderra-Hall area; followed in his father's footsteps as wheelwright, coachbuilder and blacksmith at Hall; in 1907 he built a hall which served the Hall community for many years; active in local affairs and joint secretary of the Hall Progress Association when established in 1906.
The suburb is bounded by the village of Hall to the west, Nicholls to the south east, by Casey to the east and Clarrie Hermes Drive to the south. The suburb’s other boundaries have been surveyed but not yet established. The suburb was gazetted in October 1991 and as of June 2011 has no residents. As of October 2007, maps have been placed around various spots in Gungahlin, and have Kinlyside marked as "subject to review".
Underneath Kinlyside are acid volcanic rocks from the middle Silurian period. These are from the Hawkins Volcanics. The hills in the west of the suburb are mostly green grey dacite, and the valley bottom is mostly purple andesite covered in part by alluvium.[1]