Browse Accommodation Adelaide Mining and Industry By Area

The National Trust in South Australia has active programs in three areas: managing heritage buildings and nature reserves including over sixty museums and folk history collections, devising and disseminating policies on a range of heritage issues and lobbying for improved protection of our heritage and providing awareness raising programs in the broader community on cultural and natural heritage matters.

Sleeps Hill Quarry Reserve consists of approximately sixty-nine hectares which includes Council's former operations depot and landfill. The southern section of Sleeps Hill Quarry Reserve is amongst the largest of City of Mitcham's undeveloped woodland reserves with an area of approximately thirty-three hectares. It is situated approximately 1.5 kilometres south-west of the Belair Country Fire Service station. The reserve is irregular in shape with residential development on its north-eastern, eastern and southern boundaries. The majority of its northern boundary is adjacent to the former Lynton landfill. The Trans Adelaide railway forms the reserve's western boundary. Sleeps Hill Quarry Reserve is part of a larger network of undeveloped woodland reserves across the Mitcham Hills.