Ridleyton, South Australia

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name = Ridleyton
city = Adelaide
state = sa

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Ridleyton is an inner northwestern suburb of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, a state of Australia. It is located in the City of Charles Sturt.

This suburb has working class and industrial origins, but has been redeveloped recently to become a prime residential suburb only ten kilometres from the Adelaide Central Business District and less than five kilometres from wealthy and cosmopolitan North Adelaide.

Main Roads

The suburb is serviced by the following Main Roads:
*South Road, running North-South from the far north of Adelaide to the far south
*Torrens Road, running NorthWest-SouthEast to Pennington and North Adelaide
*Hawker Street, running NorthWest-SouthEast to terminating at South Road Croydon, to North Adelaide

Postcode

The local post code is 5008

Parklands

Parks exist at the following locations

Corner of Hythe Street and Wood Avenue a small tree lined reserve about the size of two local blocks

Greenshields Reserve on Torrens Road Including Girl Guide Hall, public toilets, playground area and creek, with laneway to Wright Street

Commercial Districts

The Ridleyton Shopping Centre accessible from Hawker Street and South Road services many of the neighboring suburbs, it includes

*Foodland IGA Supermarket
*Local Vietnamese Family Bakery
*Family owned Newsagency
*Guardian Pharmacy
*Browse in and Save Discount Store

There is adequate parking and hours of opening include some late night and seven days a week for most stores

The BP on South Road houses the following services
*Fuel Sales for both large and small vehicles
*Car Wash
*Grocery Sales
*Wok in a Box: Asian foods
*Espresso Coffee

The McDonald's Family Restaurant on the Corner of South and Torrens Road
*Fast Food
*Playground
*McCafe
*Dine In, Takeaway and Drive Through

The BWS Liquor Store on the corner of Hawker and South Road
*Beer, Wine and Spirits
*Large Variety of fine wine
*Ice

Public Transport

Ridleyton is well serviced by public transport run by the [http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/ Adelaide Metro ]

[http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/ttsearch.php?action=search&searchtext=ridleyton&js=1 Adelaide Metro Search on Ridleyton]

Train

Although there is no stop in Ridleyton itself, the Outer Harbour Railway Line does run through Ridleyton. The closest station is Croydon.
* [http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/routes/timetables/routemaps/Outer_Harbor_routemap.pdf Route Map for Outer Harbour Line]
* [http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/routes/timetables/Outer_Harbor_ttable.pdf Complete Timetable for Outer Harbour Line]

Nearby railway line is the Gawler Railway Line, with Ovingham as the nearest station
* [http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/routes/timetables/routemaps/Gawler_routemap.pdf Route Map for Galwer Line]
* [http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/routes/timetables/Gawler_ttable.pdf Complete Timetable for Galwer Line]

Buses

*Hawker Street and South Road have the following bus numbers 251 252 253 and 254
*Torrens Road services include 231

External links

[http://www.domain.com.au/Public/suburbprofile.aspx?mode=research&searchTerm=Ridleyton Demographics of Ridleyton from domain.com.au]