Glen Osmond, South Australia

Glen Osmond
Adelaide, South Australia
Glen Osmond; Adelaide, South Australia
	Glen Osmond around 1869.
Population	2,154 (SAL 2021)
Postcode(s)	5064
Area	1.2 km2 (0.5 sq mi)
LGA(s)	City of Burnside
State electorate(s)	Bragg; Unley;
Federal division(s)	Sturt
	Suburbs around Glen Osmond:

Glen Osmond is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Burnside which is in the foothills of the Adelaide Hills. It is well known for the road intersection on the western side of the suburb, where the South Eastern Freeway (National Route M1) from the Adelaide Hills and the main route from Melbourne splits into National Route A17 Portrush Road (north, the main route towards Port Adelaide), Glen Osmond Road, Adelaide (northwest towards Adelaide city centre) and state route A3 Cross Road west towards the coast and southern suburbs.

History

In 1841, silver and lead were found at Glen Osmond, leading to the establishment of the Wheal Gawler and Wheal Watkins mines.^[2] The mines operated in the 1840s, and again in the 1890s. Cedric Stanton Hicks, founder of the Australian Army Catering Corps, died here in 1976.

Tom Gill, whose family were early settlers in the area, published a History and Topography of Glen Osmond in 1902.^[4] A facsimile edition of the book was published by the State Library of South Australia in 1974.

^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Glen Osmond (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
^ "The Glen Osmond Mines". Flinders Ranges Research. Archived from the original on 13 March 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
^ Collins, Carolyn; Eccleston, Roy (2019). Trailblazers: 100 Inspiring South Australian Women. Mile End, SA: Wakefield Press. pp. 67–69. ISBN 9781743056905.
^ "Rufus" (Ernest Whitington) (23 July 1923). "A Pressman's Tribute". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. LXXXVIII, no. 25, 762. South Australia. p. 8. Retrieved 19 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia. The Whitington family were also early Glen Osmond residents.