Montacute Road

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Montacute Road

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West end
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East end
Coordinates
General information
TypeRoad
Location Adelaide
Length13.1 km (8.1 mi) [1]
Major junctions
West endAUS Alphanumeric Route A11.svg Payneham Road
AUS Alphanumeric Route A11.svg Lower North East Road
Glynde, Adelaide
 
  • Maryvale Road
  • Corkscrew Road
East endMarble Hill Road
Cherryville, South Australia
Location(s)
Region Eastern Adelaide, Adelaide Hills [2]
Major suburbs Rostrevor, Montacute

Montacute Road is a major arterial road in the South Australian capital of Adelaide, connecting its inner eastern suburbs through to Montacute in the Adelaide Hills.

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Route

Montacute Road starts at the intersection with Payneham Road, Lower North East Road and Glynburn Road at Glynde Corner, Glynde in eastern suburban Adelaide. It travels east, traversing the suburbs of Hectorville, Campbelltown, Newton, Rostrevor and Athelstone. It then enters the Adelaide Hills, leading to its namesake Montacute before terminating at Cherryville.

History

Money was put aside for the making of a road to Montacute in 1850, to be spent in 1851. [3] In 1853, there is record of the existence of Montacute Road, going by that name. [4]

In 1862, a Wesleyan chapel was built on Montacute Road near the town of Montacute. It continued to operate until 1982. It still stands but is now a private residence. [5]

In 1866, the Adelaide Express said of Montacute Road: "The road is so well-known to all but a few young colonists, that we do not feel obliged to enter into an elaborate description of the scenery, or of the character of that portion of the Mount Lofty Range. While every part of our hills is beautiful, no part is more so than the Montacute-road. Passing by the Black Hill, and following the windings of the Fifth Creek, with its rocky bottom, and its banks thickly grown over with shurbs and underwood, it ascends a dividing ridge, and then leads away in the form of a W, or a succession of W's till it brings us to the bottom of the gully, and we find ourselves on the Sixth Creek, and follow it up to the Montacute.

The hills are wild, rocky, and most of them well wooded to their summits with large gums. There are sometimes huge piles, or rather precipitous mountains, of loose rocks towering over our heads, and the whole appearance of the country is volcanic. ... The track is macadamized from the Black Hill to the Montacute, and as far as long ascents and steep gradients allow is a good road. There are some bad spots on the way from the hills to Payneham, but the District Council are repairing it, and probably it will soon be tolerably passable. From the nature of the soil (black loam in places 15 feet in dept), it is necessary that the whole should be macadamized and kept in repair." [6]

Major intersections

LGA [7] Location [1] [8] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Norwood Payneham & St Peters-Campbelltown boundary Glynde-Felixstow-Hectorville-Campbelltown quadripoint0.00.0AUS Alphanumeric Route A11.svg Payneham Road (A11 west)  Kent Town, Payneham
AUS Alphanumeric Route A11.svg Lower North East Road (A11 northeast)  Campbelltown, Houghton
Western terminus of road
Glynburn Road (south)  Kensington Park, Beaumont
Campbelltown Hectorville-Campbelltown-Newton-Rostrevor quadripoint1.60.99Newton Road (north)  Newton
St. Bernards Road (south)  Magill, Wattle Park
Newton-Rostrevor-Athelstone tripoint3.32.1Stradbroke Road  Athelstone, Rostrevor
Rostrevor-Athelstone tripoint4.12.5Maryvale Road  Athelstone
Adelaide Hills Montacute 9.45.8Corkscrew Road  Castambul
Cherryville 13.18.1Cherryville Road  Cherryville
Marble Hill Road  Marble Hill, Ashton Eastern terminus of road
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •        Route transition

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References

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  2. "Location SA Map viewer with regional layers". Government of South Australia . Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  3. "Central Road Board". Adelaide Observer. June 1850.
  4. "Police Court". Adelaide Times. 3 February 1853.
  5. "A History of Montacute Methodist Church 1862 - 1982" (PDF).
  6. "Sixth Creek Gold Mining Venture". Adelaide Express. 4 June 1866.
  7. "Location SA Map viewer with LGA layers". Government of South Australia . Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  8. "Location SA Map viewer with suburb layers". Government of South Australia . Retrieved 16 June 2022.