Brown Hill Creek, South Australia
Suburb of Adelaide, South Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suburb of Adelaide, South Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brown Hill Creek is a south-eastern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham in South Australia, named in 1991 after Brown Hill Creek which flows from east to west through the locality.[2] The creek itself was named after Brown Hill which rises immediately south-east of Mitcham village.
Brown Hill Creek Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 34°59′13″S 138°39′11″E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 71 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5062 | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | City of Mitcham | ||||||||||||||
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The area beside the creek in the suburbs of Mitcham and Brown Hill Creek was known to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains as Wirraparinga, meaning "creek and scrub place".[3]
The creek valley south of Brown Hill is home to Brownhill Creek Recreation Park[4] and has been the site a recreation park since the late 1800s. A bathing hole was established at a constructed dam on the creek near Mitcham village in 1894 but was removed eight years later to protect the interests of market gardeners upstream.[5] A a stone plaque declaring a "pleasure resort" from the early part of the 20th century still stands at the entrance to the valley, where Mitcham borders the suburb of Brown Hill Creek. The recreation reserve extends several kilometres upstream into the main creek valley through the heart of the suburb.
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