Ottoway, South Australia

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox Australian place| type = suburb | name = Ottoway | city = Adelaide | state = sa | image = | caption = | lga = City of Port Adelaide Enfield | postcode = 5013 | est = | pop =  | area = | stategov = [[electoral district of Port Adelaide|Port Adelaide]] | fedgov = [[Division of Hindmarsh|Hindmarsh]] | near-nw = [[Gillman, South Australia|Gillman]] | near-n = | near-ne = [[Wingfield, South Australia|Wingfield]] | near-w = | near-e = | near-sw = [[Rosewater, South Australia|Rosewater]] | near-s = [[Pennington, South Australia|Pennington]], [[Athol Park, South Australia|Athol Park]] | near-se = [[Mansfield Park, South Australia|Mansfield Park]] | dist1 = 2.5 | dir1 = E | location1=Port Adelaide | dist2 =12 |dir2= NW | location2= [[Adelaide city centre]] | alternative_location_map = Australia SA inner Adelaide | pushpin_map_caption = Location in greater metropolitan [[Adelaide]] | coordinates = {{coord|34|50|48|S|138|32|08|E|display=inline,title}} |use_lga_map=yes }}

'''Ottoway''' is an [[industrial suburb]] of [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]], in the [[City of Port Adelaide Enfield]] local government area. It is around {{convert|12|km|0|abbr=on}} west-northwest of the city centre.

The suburb was laid out on section 1160, Hundred of Port Adelaide, the grant of which was in 1851 secured by one George Dale. When the land was subdivided in 1883 the surveyors and vendors Ferry, Moore & Wallmann named the suburb "Ottoway".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41997920 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XLVIII |issue=11,390 |location=South Australia |date=17 May 1883 |access-date=2 June 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> [[Geoff Manning]], in his ''Place Names of South Australia'', idiosyncratically gives the spelling "Ottaway", and gives as its derivation the publican Thomas Finch Ottaway (c. 1816 – 21 July 1867), who in 1853 purchased the land from George Dale.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pn/o/o3.htm#ottaway|title=Place Names of South Australia|author=Geoff Manning|publisher=State Library of South Australia|access-date=2 June 2017}}</ref> [[File:Port Adelaide aerial view.jpg|thumb|right| Ottoway and the surrounding areas]] Ottoway's northern and western boundaries lie mainly along the [[Dry Creek-Port Adelaide railway line]], and [[Grand Junction Road]] forms the suburb's southern boundary. The Port River Expressway also goes through this suburb.

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[[Category:Suburbs of Adelaide]]