Ingle Farm

Ingle Farm is an established, residential suburb, with some parklands, of about 8,500 people in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide. It is located at the base of the Mount Lofty Ranges foothills, around 12 kilometres north-east of Adelaide’s central business district. It covers an area of 4.47 km² with a population density of 19.41 people per hectare in 2001.

James Rowe arrived in South Australia 22 Apr 1837 on the “South Australian”,^[2] spending two years on Kangaroo Island^[3] then settling with his family in the Ingle Farm area in 1848.^{[citation needed]} They initially took up 100 acres (0.40 km²) in section 3030, Hundred of Yatala in 1849,^{[citation needed]} using the land primarily for farming wheat, barley, peas and hay. James Rowe’s grandson, Jabez Sleeman Rowe (1871-1955),^[4] took on the farm and married Martha Barbara Wright (1868 – 1943),^[4] from Inglewood in 1902^[4] consequently naming the farm Ingle Farm. In 1959, the South Australian Housing Trust purchased 730 acres (3.0 km²) from the Rowe brothers, Cyril (married to Alice) and Slem (married to Jean) Rowe and started a housing estate,^[5] with the first Housing Trust homes built in 1965^[6] and 2,500 houses completed by 1975. The Rowe family name is preserved in the naming of Rowe Park, next to Ingle Farm Primary School, and Rowe Street in the adjoining suburb of Para Hills.