Adelaide Metcalfe: Highway 402 at Hickory Drive, Looking East
Formed by the 2001 amalgamation of Adelaide and Metcalfe townships, Adelaide Metcalfe became a rural municipality in Middlesex County. West of London, its low-lying countryside combines working farmland, hedgerows and woodland close to the Thames River. Ontario Highway 402 crosses the municipality, forming part of the road link between London and Sarnia and continuing toward the Blue Water Bridge border crossing to Michigan. The interchange at Hickory Drive reflects a practical side of this agricultural area: local roads meet one of southwestern Ontario’s principal highway corridors. Its present-day identity still rests on the two historic townships joined through municipal reorganization.
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Adelaide Metcalfe occupies a broad rural stretch of Middlesex County in southwestern Ontario, west of London. The municipality includes the community of Melbourne, close to the Thames River, amid a landscape shaped by farms, woodlots and country roads. Adelaide Metcalfe was created in 2001 through the amalgamation of the former townships of Adelaide and Metcalfe, preserving the names of both historic local communities. Small settlements such as Kerwood and Nairn give the area its distinctly agricultural, small-town character. Continue through nearby webcams to explore different parts of Adelaide Metcalfe and southwestern Ontario.
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