Kensington Gardens, South Australia

Kensington Gardens
Adelaide, South Australia
Kensington Gardens; Adelaide, South Australia
Population	2,456 (2016 census)
Postcode(s)	5068
LGA(s)	City of Burnside
State electorate(s)	Bragg
Federal division(s)	Sturt

Kensington Gardens is an eastern suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Burnside. Inhabited by the Kaurna people before settlement by Europeans,^[2]^[3] it became known as Pile's Paddock, after James Pile, who was born in the county of Yorkshire, England, in 1800 and arrived in South Australia in 1849.^[4]

Pile's Paddock was popular as a picnic ground for a long time, before part of the land was reserved as a public recreation ground in perpetuity, as originally suggested by a Mr H.J. Holden, a member of the Tramways Trust, on condition that a tramline be run to the ground.^[4] This is now the large recreational park, Kensington Gardens Reserve, also referred to as Kensington Gardens, created around 1908–1909^[5] and occupying 40 acres (16 ha).^[6] Stonyfell Creek runs through the park. The south-eastern corner and part of South Terrace were once part of a Kaurna burial ground.^[7]

In 1906 the Bank of New South Wales obtained section 271 from William Pile and subdivided it in 1910, with the suburb renamed to Kensington Gardens around 1910,^[4] after Kensington Gardens in London.^[8]^[6]

A tramline for electric trams, part of the network of Adelaide trams and on the first line of the network to be electrified in 1909, was built as an extension to the Kensington Line, which had terminated The Parade/Gurrs Road intersection. The extension was built to serve the recently created reserve.^[5]

An annual sweet-pea exhibition was held in the reserve between 1910 and 1920,^[9] and in 1920, trees were felled in order to create the bowling green in the north-east corner. By 1923, part of the park had been laid out as a garden by a Mr A.H. Matthews of the Tramways Trust, and the name Kensington Gardens was used to refer to the suburb or the reserve. The artist and musician Gustave Barnes lived in Kensington Gardens before his death in 1921.^[6]

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^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Kensington Gardens (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
^ O'Brien, Lewis Yerloburka; Paul, Mandy (8 December 2013). "Kaurna People". Adelaidia. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
^ "Our early beginnings". City of Burnside. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Manning, Geoffrey H. (2002). "Place Names of South Australia - K". The Manning Index of South Australian History. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via State Library of South Australia.
^ ^a ^b "The Eastern Lines". Tramway Museum, St Kilda. 17 March 1956. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Kensington—Old and New". The Observer (Adelaide). LXXX (5, 961). South Australia. 28 April 1923. p. 14 – via National Library of Australia. [cont. next page] "Kensington—Old and New [cont.]". The Observer (Adelaide). LXXX (5, 961). South Australia. 28 April 1923. p. 15. Retrieved 20 September 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Burnside Heritage Survey (South Australia): Part One: General Report" (PDF). Heritage Investigations. Prepared for the Corporation of the City of Burnside and the State Heritage Branch of the Department of Environment and Planning by John Dallwitz and Alexandra Marsden of Heritage Investigations, Adelaide 1986. (amended July 1987). City of Burnside and the Australian Heritage Commission. 1987. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: others (link)
^ "The Names of Adelaide, South Australia". Pocket Oz Guide to Australia. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
^ City of Burnside (2006). "Celebrating Our city - 150 Years" (PDF). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)