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About Mile End
Mile End, South Australia
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Henley Beach Road, looking east into the city
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| Population | 4,431 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 2,448/km2 (6,340/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1860 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5031 [2] | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 1.81 km2 (0.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 2 km (1 mi) W of Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of West Torrens | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | West Torrens | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
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Mile End is an inner western suburb of Adelaide, located in the City of West Torrens, around 2 kilometres from the Adelaide city centre. It has a census area population of 4,413 people (2011). Much of the suburb is residential, but there are small commercial areas along Henley Beach Road and South Road.
Cottages built in 1901-2 by Adelaide Workmen’s Homes Inc.,
on the south side of Rose Street
Former Thomas Hardy & Sons Ltd Wine Cellars, built in 1893 and since 1984 the Mile End campus of Temple Christian College.
The former Star Theatre on Henley Beach Road, built in 1915-6 as one of the first cinemas in Adelaide, now part of an office furniture retail store
Mile End was originally established in 1860 as The Town of Mile End by the South Australian Company. It was so named because the township was approximately one mile from the centre of Adelaide. It was also named after Mile End in east London, England, whose name has a similar meaning.[3] It was part of the then largely rural District of West Torrens until 1883, when the residents of the more urban suburbs of Thebarton, Mile End and Torrensville successfully petitioned to become the Corporation of the Town of Thebarton.[4] In 1997 the Town of Thebarton re-amalgamated with the City of West Torrens.[5]
E. M. Bagot and Gabriel Bennett had a large holding of grazing land south of Henley Beach Road,[6] part of which (the “Thebarton Racecourse” or colloquially the “Butchers’ Course”) was used from 1859 to 1869 by a group of “sporting gentlemen”, later to become the South Australian Jockey Club, to hold their race meetings.[7]
Mile End railway station, built in 1898, is also one mile from the Adelaide railway station.
Examples of Old Australia still seen in the backstreets of Mile End today.
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