Anderson Walk is the southern boundary of the original Township village subdivided by John Smith, which was arranged in a grid with Augusta Square in the centre.

Thomas Hogarth M.P who built a homestead called Blair Place both located to the east on the hills face.

[6] Smith built a homestead on his property in 1850 and set up part of it as a hotel to take advantage of traffic passing by on the main road.

The site chosen was on the corner of Main North Road and Anderson Walk which was approximately 12 acres and was purchased by a Trust which was established with Henry Joseph Twelftree, Frank Thomas Judd, William Kelly Adams, Melville Galbraith Smith and Joseph Blake as the Trustees.

The sum of £140 was raised by subscriptions, and the balance was supplemented by a sports and fete, which was duly held on Saturday, April 19, 1923.

[14] A 1 mile (1.6 km) speedway track was built in the Smithfield area in 1926 by the Motorcycle Club of South Australia.

[18] The track was on the east side of the Gawler Road, a little south of Smithfield township, in a paddock of 80 acres (32 ha).

[20] Following World War II, a migrant hostel was established on land no longer required for a munitions depot near the railway line at Smithfield.

[21] Single people were allocated space in a dormitory, families had a section of a larger building with two or three bedrooms and a sitting room.

In the morning and afternoon/evening peak hours, there are several trains that run express making stops at Smithfield, Elizabeth, Parafield, Salisbury and Mawson Interchanges.