Brown Hill Creek, South Australia

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Brown Hill Creek
Adelaide,  South Australia
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Brown Hill trig station
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Brown Hill Creek
Coordinates 34°59′13″S138°39′11″E / 34.987°S 138.653°E / -34.987; 138.653
Population71 (SAL 2021) [1]
Postcode(s) 5062
LGA(s) City of Mitcham
Suburbs around Brown Hill Creek:
Springfield Urrbrae Mount Osmond
Mitcham Brown Hill Creek Leawood Gardens
Belair Belair Crafers West

Brown Hill Creek is a south-eastern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham in South Australia, named in 1991 after Brown Hill Creek which flows from east to west through the locality. [2] The creek itself was named after Brown Hill which rises immediately south-east of Mitcham village.

The area beside the creek in the suburbs of Mitcham and Brown Hill Creek was known to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains as Wirraparinga, meaning "creek and scrub place". [3]

The suburb of Brown Hill Creek extends southwards for about 4 km (2.5 mi) from Mount Osmond, in the right of the picture. Mt osmond inter bhc.jpg
The suburb of Brown Hill Creek extends southwards for about 4 km (2.5 mi) from Mount Osmond, in the right of the picture.

The creek valley south of Brown Hill is home to Brownhill Creek Recreation Park [4] and has been the site a recreation park since the late 1800s. A bathing hole was established at a constructed dam on the creek near Mitcham village in 1894 but was removed eight years later to protect the interests of market gardeners upstream. [5] A a stone plaque declaring a "pleasure resort" from the early part of the 20th century still stands at the entrance to the valley, where Mitcham borders the suburb of Brown Hill Creek. The recreation reserve extends several kilometres upstream into the main creek valley through the heart of the suburb.

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References

  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Brown Hill Creek (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. "Placename Details: Brown Hill Creek". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 15 September 2008. SA0009969. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2018. Date Named: 6/06/1991; Derivation of Name: Brown Hill Creek (strm)
  3. "Placename Details: Brown Hill Creek". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 8 February 2012. SA0009971. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2017. Derivation of Name: After the adjacent hill; Dual Name: Brown Hill Creek / Willawilla; Other Details: Also known as Willawilla or Wirraparinga. Kaurna people advised that the traditional name is Willawilla. Shown as Brownhill Creek on 1:10 000 & 1:50 000 Mapsheets. Full extent of creek not determined due to the construction of drains along the creek line. Colonel William Light's plan of Adelaide published in 1839 shows the spelling as Brown Hill Creek. Dual named 3/2/2011.
  4. "Brownhill Creek Recreation Park". Department of Environment, Government of South Australia.
  5. "Brown Hill Creek". City of Mitcham . Retrieved 10 January 2017.