Forestville
Forestville is an inner southwestern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. It is traversed by Brown Hill Creek and the Glenelg tram line. The prominent horse breeder William Harper Formby was an early settler in the area, occupying much of Section 53 on the Bay Road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 1,350 residents
- Description: suburb of Adelaide, South Australia
- Also known as: “Forestville, South Australia” and “Forestville, South Australia, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Goodwood railway station and Ashford Hospital.
Goodwood railway station
Railway station
Photo: Michael Coghlan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Goodwood railway station is a commuter railway station and the junction station for the Belair, Seaford and Flinders lines. The Belair line diverges south-east towards Millswood, while the Seaford and Flinders lines diverge south-west towards Clarence Park.
Ashford Hospital
Hospital
Ashford Hospital is a 239-bed private, not-for-profit hospital on the Anzac Highway in the suburb of Ashford, five kilometers from the CBD. It provides acute and maternity care.
Capri Theatre
Movie theater
Photo: Bahudhara, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Capri Theatre is a heritage-listed cinema in Goodwood, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, built in the Art Deco style in 1941. It was formerly called the New Star Theatre, Goodwood Star, New Curzon, and Cinema Capri.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Everard Park and Ashford.
Everard Park
Suburb
Photo: YellowMonkey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Everard Park is a small inner south-western suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley, once part of the extensive land holdings of the prominent colonist Dr.
Ashford
Suburb
Ashford is an inner southwestern suburb of Adelaide, in the City of West Torrens. It is triangular in shape and bordered by South Road, Anzac Highway and Everard Avenue.
Millswood
Suburb
Millswood is an inner-southern mainly residential suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. It was named after Scotsman Samuel Mills, who arrived in the colony in 1839.
Forestville
- Category: locality
- Location: City of Unley, South Australia, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-34.95138° or 34° 57′ 5″ southLongitude
138.58098° or 138° 34′ 52″ eastPopulation
1,350Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)Open location code
4QQW2HXJ+C9OpenStreetMap ID
node 279823406OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
9973317Wikidata ID
Q5469297
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Forestville” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Forestville”
- Chinese: “科核士圍”
- Irish: “Forestville”
- Persian: “فارستویل، استرالیای جنوبی”
- Swedish: “Forestville (del av en befolkad plats)”
- Swedish: “Forestville”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Forestville Reserve and Unley Swimming Centre.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Forestville”. Photo: Roumpf, CC BY-SA 4.0.