Reid is a suburb of Canberra

Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

, Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

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, Australia

Australia

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. Located directly next to Canberra City, Reid is one of the oldest suburbs in Canberra.

Reid is named after Australia's fourth Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Australia

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, Sir George Reid

George Reid (Australian politician)

Sir George Houstoun Reid, GCB, GCMG, KC was an Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and the fourth Prime Minister of Australia....

. The streets in Reid are named after aboriginal words.

Separating the suburbs of Reid and Campbell

Campbell, Australian Capital Territory

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 is ANZAC Parade

ANZAC Parade, Canberra

This article is about the road in Canberra. For other uses, see Anzac Parade .ANZAC Parade, a significant road and thoroughfare in the Australian capital Canberra, is used for ceremonial occasions and is the site of many major military memorials.Named in honour of the Australian and New Zealand...

, a ceremonial boulevarde running along Canberra's primary design axis (the ceremonial axis) from Lake Burley Griffin

Lake Burley Griffin

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 to the Australian War Memorial

Australian War Memorial

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Located in Reid are the Canberra Institute of Technology

Canberra Institute of Technology

The Canberra Institute of Technology is a vocational education provider in Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory, and is one of a system of TAFEs. Qualifications offered by CIT range from certificate to degree level. CIT has four campuses across Canberra, located in Bruce, Reid, Phillip and...

 and St John the Baptist Church

St John the Baptist Church, Reid

St John the Baptist Church is the oldest church in Canberra, Australia, and also the oldest building within Canberra's city precinct. It is sited at the corner of ANZAC Parade and Constitution Avenue in the suburb of Reid.-Construction:...

, the oldest church in Canberra. Most of Reid is a protected Historical Precinct.

Geology

Calcareous shale

Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. The ratio of clay to other minerals is variable. Shale is characterized by breaks along thin laminae or parallel layering...

from the Canberra Formation is overlain by Quaternary alluvium.
This rock is the limestone of the original title of Canberra "Limestone Plains".
Tertiary age pebbly gravels are around Anzac Parade left from when the Molonglo river was at a higher level.