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Adelaide is a planned city, and the Adelaide Park Lands are an integral part of Colonel William Light's 1837 plan. [11] [3] Light chose a site spanning the River Torrens (known as Yatala by the Kaurna people [12]), and planned the city to fit the topography of the landscape, "on rising ground".
There is a Category:Parks in Adelaide which is for the class of open space provided for recreational use which can be described as urban parks and which are located within the metropolitan area known as Adelaide. This category is for things located in the Adelaide Park Lands which do not fit into that category.
The South Australian government region known as Western Adelaide and which occupies the area in the Adelaide metropolitan area located to the north-west of the Adelaide city centre consists of the following local government areas: the City of Charles Sturt, the City of West Torrens and the western half of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
When Light was designing Adelaide, his plans included surrounding the city with 2,332 acres (9.44 km 2) of park. [39] [40] Of these, he reserved 32 acres for one of the world's earliest public cemeteries, now called West Terrace Cemetery. Light referred to his unique figure-eight of open space as "Adelaide Park".
Unley is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, within the City of Unley. The suburb is the home of the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Unley neighbours Adelaide Park Lands, Fullarton, Hyde Park, Malvern, Parkside and Wayville.
Park 10, also known as Bullrush Park and Warnpangga [1] is one of the Adelaide Park Lands in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.It is one of the few parks (in the Adelaide Park Lands) to still be known most commonly by its assigned number, and is enclosed by McKinnon Parade, Bundey's Road, War Memorial Drive and Frome Road. [2]
Adelaide Park Lands, the figure eight of green space surrounding the Adelaide CBD and North Adelaide, and along both banks of the River Torrens within the City of Adelaide; Parklands, Western Australia; Parklands, Tasmania, a suburb of Burnie
Rymill Park / Murlawirrapurka (previously spelt Mullawirraburka), and numbered as Park 14, is a recreation park located in the East Park Lands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. There is an artificial lake with rowboats for hire, a café, children's playground and rose garden , and the Adelaide Bowling Club is on the Dequetteville ...