Torrens Road, Adelaide is designated route A22, which then follows Churchill Road. The former Cheltenham Park Racecourse ( now a residential area ) and Armada Arndale Shopping Centre are both located on Torrens Road. Torrens Road is located in the Cities of Prospect, Charles Sturt and Port Adelaide Enfield. Torrens Road, Adelaide Torrens Road is an arterial road in the northwestern suburbs of Adelaide, Australia. The road travels in a southeast-northwest direction and is parallel with Port Road for most of its length. It commences at Park Terrace (A21). Travelling northwest, major roads that intersect Torrens Road include Churchill Road (A22), South Road
River Torrens after him. In 1867, prison labour from Adelaide Gaol was used to build a wooden dam near the site of the current weir. The dam was poorly constructed and almost immediately the Torrens washed it away. Construction of a permanent concrete weir was begun in November 1880 and completed, at a cost of £7,000, in 1881. The sluice gates were closed to begin filling the Torrens Lake on 1 July 1881. At the lake's official opening on 21 July 1881 an estimated 40,000, almost the entire population of Adelaide, attended. During the 1889 flood, the weir was overwhelmed, its gates