Wattle Park, South Australia
Wattle Park is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Burnside, South Australia. It has about 1,885 residents (2021) and the postcode is 5066.
The name comes from land bought by George Scarfe around 1880. His home, Scarfe House, later became the Wattle Park Teachers College (1957–1972), then the Wattle Park Teachers Centre before being sold by the Education Department. In 1991 it became the centerpiece of Wattle Grove, a retirement village run by Southern Cross Homes.
The area is also linked to the Stonyfell Olive Company, started in 1873 by Joseph Crompton, William Mair and Sidney Clark. By 1900 it planted about 100 acres with around 10,000 olive trees near Penfold Road. The olive crushing plant was in what is now Wattle Park, at the western end of Crompton Drive. In 1932 it was South Australia’s largest olive oil producer and bottled oil with Bickford’s. The land was later sold to developers.
Wattle Park Post Office opened in 1965 and closed in 1967. There are no schools inside Wattle Park. The nearest schools are St Peter’s Collegiate Girls’ School in Stonyfell, Norwood Morialta High School (Senior Campus) and Magill Primary School in Magill. Wattle Park Kindergarten, on Yeltana Avenue, was formerly Christopher Rawson Penfold Kindergarten.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 17:27 (CET).