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Royston Park, South Australia

suburb of Adelaide, South Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ7375260 ↗
Source-derived summary

Royston Park is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It is a narrow suburb at a little more than 200 m wide. It was created by a subdivision in 1909. Royston Park is bordered by Joslin and Marden, along with the River Torrens.

The Royston Park Post Office closed in 1975.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Royston Park, South Australia” as suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1909, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Royston, Park and South can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7375260. Authority coordinates are -34.899, 138.634. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1909 and 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Royston Park, South Australia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.