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Athelstone

Athelstone is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Campbelltown.

Athelstone
Athelstone · State Government Photographer
The place

Athelstone is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Campbelltown. It was established in the 19th century but only became part of suburban Adelaide in the second half of the 20th century.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Athelstone

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Torrens Linear Park

    The Torrens Linear Park is a linear park that runs along the River Torrens in South Australia, spanning from the edge of Adelaide Hills in Athelstone to the coast in West Beach and Henley Beach South. Upon completion in 1997, it was the first linear park of its kind in Australia, and also the largest hills-to-coast park.

    1.5 km · park in South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hope Valley Reservoir

    The Hope Valley Dam is an off-stream earth-filled embankment dam, located in Hope Valley, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Completed in 1873, the resultant reservoir, the Hope Valley Reservoir, was established to supply potable water for the city of Adelaide.

    2.9 km · lake in Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Thorndon Park Reserve

    Thorndon Park Reserve is a public park in the Adelaide suburb of Paradise, South Australia. It was originally the site of the Thorndon Park reservoir, which was completed in 1860.

    1.4 km · park in Adelaide, South Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Athelstone

Airports
Adelaide (ADL), 18 km
Stations
Paradise Interchange, 3.8 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Athelstone
    654 km · quickest by air, 5h 39m · A$250–380
  • Melbourne → Athelstone
    649 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · A$240–360
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Athelstone
    1149 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · A$250–380
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Athelstone

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Athelstone. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    164 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,193 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,752 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,706 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,635 km

If you know how people move in Athelstone – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Athelstone

Athelstone is 12 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hope Valleysuburb of Adelaide, South Australia3 km
  • Paradisesuburb of Adelaide, South Australia2.5 km
  • Campbelltownsuburb of Adelaide, South Australia3.6 km
  • Montacutelocality in South Australia3.9 km
  • Holden Hillsuburb of Adelaide, South Australia3.7 km
  • Newtonsuburb of Adelaide, South Australia2.2 km