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Glen Osmond

Glen Osmond is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Burnside which is in the foothills of the Adelaide Hills.

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The place

Glen Osmond is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Burnside which is in the foothills of the Adelaide Hills. It is well known for the road intersection on the western side of the suburb, where the South Eastern Freeway from the Adelaide Hills and the main route from Melbourne splits into National Route A17 Portrush Road, Glen Osmond Road and state route A3 Cross Road west towards the coast and southern suburbs.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Glen Osmond

10 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
    Brown Hill, Mitcham

    Brown Hill is a hill in the Australian state of South Australia located on the western edge of the Mount Lofty Ranges, 7 kilometres southeast of the centre of Adelaide, in the suburb of Brown Hill Creek. Brown Hill rises to 312 metres above sea level.

    2.8 km · mountain in South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Adelaide Himeji Garden

    Adelaide Himeji Garden is a traditionally-styled Japanese garden, a gift from Adelaide's sister city, Himeji in 1982. It is located in Park 18, one of the southern parts of the Adelaide Park Lands in Adelaide, South Australia.

    3.9 km · traditional Japanese garden in Adelaide, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Unley Oval

    Unley Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket venue in the Adelaide suburb of Unley. It is the home of the Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League, while the Sturt Cricket Club also hosts lower-grade matches at the venue.

    2.9 km · Multi-purpose stadium in Adelaide, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Victoria Park

    Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi, also known as Park 16, is a park located in the Southeastern Park Lands of the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is bordered by Fullarton Road, Greenhill Road, East Terrace and Wakefield Road.

    3.6 km · park in Adelaide, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Concordia College

    Concordia College is an ELC–12 independent, co-educational, Lutheran school with campuses located in the Highgate and Blackwood areas of Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1890, the college is a school of the Lutheran Church of Australia and has been an International Baccalaureate World School since January 2001, offering the IB Primary Years and Middle Years Programmes.

    2.2 km · college in South Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Heywood Park

    Heywood Park is a public park in the suburb of Unley Park in Adelaide, South Australia. It is home to the last remaining grey box gum trees on the Adelaide plains, some of which pre-date European settlement.

    3.7 km · public park in Adelaide, South Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Scotch College

    Scotch College is an independent, Uniting Church, co-educational, day and boarding school, the bulk being in Torrens Park with a nearby junior school campus in Mitcham, inner-southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1919 out of the earlier Kyre College, and incorporated under an Act of Parliament in 1922, Scotch currently caters for approximately 1,000 students including more than 100 boarders in Years 7 to 12.

    3.3 km · secondary educational college in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Beaumont House

    Beaumont House, occasionally known as Claremont, is an eclectic Romanesque-Classical brick residence located at 631 Glynburn Road in Beaumont, South Australia. Beaumont House was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral.

    2.2 km · house in South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Burnside library

    The Burnside Library is a public library in the City of Burnside, Adelaide. Located on the corner of Greenhill and Portrush Roads, it is part of the Burnside Civic Centre.

    2.4 km · library in Burnside, South Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hazelwood Park, Adelaide

    Hazelwood Park is a park in the Australian state of South Australia located in the suburb of Hazelwood Park within the Adelaide Metropolitan Area. First creek continues its journey from the hills through the park, the water flowing from Waterfall Gully and into Tusmore.

    3 km · park in South Australia, 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 Glen Osmond

Airports
Adelaide (ADL), 10 km
Stations
Torrens Park railway station, 3.8 km · Hawthorn railway station, 3.8 km · Mitcham railway station, 3.5 km · Unley Park railway station, 4 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Glen Osmond
    653 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · A$240–350
  • Melbourne → Glen Osmond
    648 km · quickest by air, 5h 5m · A$220–330
  • Sydney (Mascot) → Glen Osmond
    1155 km · quickest by air, 5h 1m · A$230–350
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Glen Osmond

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 Glen Osmond. 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

    154 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,188 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,763 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,706 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

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Around it

Next door to Glen Osmond

Glen Osmond is 5 km from Adelaide, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.