Salisbury | |||||||||||||
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  Salisbury Location in greater metropolitanAdelaide | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| City | Adelaide | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1843 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 4.48 km2 (1.73 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 8,841 (SAL2021)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5108 | ||||||||||||
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Salisbury (/ˈsɔːlzbri/SAWLZ-br-ee) is a northern suburb ofAdelaide,South Australia. It is the seat of theCity of Salisbury, and is within theSouth Australian Legislative Assemblyelectoral district of Ramsay and theAustralian House of Representatives division ofSpence. The suburb is a service area for theCity of Salisbury district, with many parklands, shops, cafés and restaurants.
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Salisbury was founded byJohn Harvey, who arrived in theprovince of South Australia from Scotland in 1839 as a young single man, three years after theestablishment of government by British settlers.[3][4] He began selling town allotments in 1848, from land he had purchased along theLittle Para River in the previous year. He named the town afterSalisbury inWiltshire, since his new wife came from nearSalisbury Plain in England.[5][6][7] [note 1] Salisbury started its life as a service centre for the surrounding wheat and hay farms.[9] Salisbury Post Office opened around March 1850.[10]
Salisbury railway station was built in 1857 on the1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad-gauge main northern line toGawler. In 1917 it became a junction where a new line toLong Plains diverged north-west.[11]: 56 In 1982, thislatter line was converted to1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge.[11]: 57 In 1985, theState Transport Authority demolished the historic station buildings to make way for abus–rail interchange.[12][13]
Salisbury's first police station was established in 1859.[14]
In 1851, the first Methodist Church was erected. Saint Augustine's Catholic Church was completed in March 1857. Saint John's Anglican Church was opened for service in 1865.[15]
The area's first school, Salisbury Public School, was completed in 1877.[16]
In 1881, Salisbury's town population was between 400 and 500.[7]
TheDistrict Council of Salisbury was established in 1933 (amalgamatingYatala North south of the Little Para andMunno Para West to the north)[17] which centred local governance of the area on the main population centre between Enfield and Gawler, the township of Salisbury.[18]
During theSecond World War, in 1940, anexplosives and filling factory – theSalisbury Explosives Factory – was established atPenfield, 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) to the north. Covering about 12 km2 (4.5 mi2), it commenced production in mid-1942. By January 1943, 6500 persons were employed, producing 135,000shells,bombs andmines per week.The population of the district doubled to more than 4000,[7] most being concentrated in the Salisburytownship,[19] bringing to an end the bucolic life of the townspeople.[20]: 45 Four years after the war had ended and the factory had closed, a large influx of newcomers again occurred when about 1000 employees of a newrocket testing project were progressively accommodated at a newSouth Australian Housing Trust estate atSalisbury North, which started to take shape in 1949.[20]: 53
In the 21st century, Salisbury has been a popular destination for immigrants. In the2021 census, 52.1% of the Salisbury population were born in Australia. Other countries of birth were England 4.2%, Bhutan 4%, Myanmar 3.8%, Afghanistan 3.7% and Nepal 3.3%. 52.2% spoke English only at home. Other languages spoken at home were Nepali 8.0%, Hazaraghi 3.6%, Italian 3%, Vietnamese 2.2% and Arabic 1.9%.[21]
Salisbury is a constituent of the 33-times-larger[note 2]City of Salisburylocal government area. As of 2023[update], there were 13 City of Salisbury councillors: 7Australian Labor Party (ALP) and 6 independent.[22] The state member of parliament for theelectoral district of Ramsay wasZoe Bettison[23] (ALP), and the federal member, for theDivision of Spence, wasMatt Burnell[24] (ALP).
Two South AustralianAustralian Labor Party leaders,Lynn Arnold (Premier 1992–1993) andMike Rann (Premier 2002–2011) both represented the Salisbury area in theSouth Australian Parliament. Arnold was elected as the MP forRamsay, and thenTaylor, and Rann was elected as the MP forBriggs and Ramsay.[citation needed]
Trains to and from Adelaide and Gawler fromSalisbury operate every 15 minutes at off-peak times on Monday to Friday, and every 30 minutes during the day on Saturday and Sunday. In the evening, services run every hour. In morning peak hours, there are several trains that run non-stop between Salisbury and Adelaide (or make only one stop, atMawson Interchange). These are used by a significant number of city workers who either park their vehicle or transfer from buses at Salisbury Interchange.
Local buses from Salisbury Interchange, scheduled to connect with trains to and from Adelaide, use the Adelaide Metrointegrated ticketing system. In May 2012 there were 13 local bus routes providing links to many of the northern suburbs, such as routes 400 and 430 toElizabeth, route 415V toGolden Grove, routes 224, 225, 411 toMawson Lakes, routes 225, 500, 502, 560 toPara Hills, routes 401, 411 toParalowie and routes 404, 405 toParafield Gardens.
The first St John's Anglican Church was established on the block in Church Street about 1846 or 1850, one of the first churches to be constructed in Salisbury. As the size of the congregation increased, a second church, designed byDaniel Garlick inGothic style, was built in 1865, after the first foundation stone was laid by BishopAugustus Short in 1858. The smaller old church was used as a school from 1851 to 1877 in addition to serving as a church until 1865. The replacement church was gutted by fire in 1989, after beingheritage-listed on theRegister of the National Estate for its fine stained glass windows and other significant architectural and historical features. In 1995 an auditorium was built connecting the church and the church hall.[25] The inauguralEdmund Wright Heritage Award for Heritage Places in 2003 was won by Peter Moeck for the new auditorium project by Brown Falconer.[26] As of 2024[update] the official name of the church is Church of Saint John The Evangelist,[27] but it is known as St John's Anglican Church.[28]
In 1851, the first Methodist Church was erected. St. Augustine's Catholic Church was completed in March 1857.[29]
The majorretail zone in Salisbury is the Parabanks Shopping Centre, a short distance from Salisbury Interchange, first opened about 1977. The single-floor complex includes 74 stores and 3anchor stores,[30] with a total floor area of 23,800 m2, and about 1400 parking spaces. In 2008, property groupStockland sold the shopping centre to the Angaet Group. In 2015, an $18 million redevelopment of the centre was approved by the Salisbury Council.[31] The redevelopment consisted of three stages, with five specialty stores added to the eastern side mall, the relocation of theColes supermarket and external upgrades, which were completed in 2017.[32]
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| City centre clocktower | Shops in John Street | Original Salisbury Public School building in Mary Street, now a part of theTAFE campus | |||
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| John Street in the 1950s, with Heidenreich's flour mill and Governor MacDonnell hotel | Salisbury Institute, which has had many roles since 1884, including a cinema | A reception for musician Ruby Davy at Salisbury Institute in 1936 | |||
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| The Governor MacDonnell hotel, first available "watering hole" for workers at themunitions factory (laterLRWE/WRE) until6 o'clock Closing | Station building on the northbound line platform, now demolished together with its southbound counterpart | St John's Anglican church and cemetery in Church Street |
