| Plympton Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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| Population | 5,459 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5038 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of West Torrens | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Badcoe | ||||||||||||||
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Plympton is an inner south-western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The name is believed to have been given by Henry Mooringe Boswarva to a private subdivision in the area, naming after his home town in Devon, England.[2] It was accepted as an official name for the suburb in 1944.
Of irregular shape, the suburb straddles parts of Marion Road, Cross Road and Anzac Highway. To the east of Marion Road it is bounded by the former Holdfast Bay railway line (northwest), Gray and Beckman Streets (east), and the Glenelg tram line (south). To the west of Marion Road it is bounded Mooringe Avenue (north), Streeters Road and Whelan Avenue (west), and the Glenelg tram line (south).
The remnants of the Holdfast Bay railway line can be found in Plympton's West Side cycleway.
Plympton is in the City of West Torrens local government area; the South Australian House of Assembly districts of Badcoe and Morphett; and the Australian House of Representatives divisions of Hindmarsh and Adelaide.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Plympton (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Suburbs of the City of West Torrens
