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Wakefield Regional Council
Wakefield Regional Council is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. The council seat is at Balaklava, South Australia, Balaklava. Geography The Wakefield Regional Council includes the towns and localities of Avon, South Australia, Avon, Balaklava, South Australia, Balaklava, Barunga Gap, South Australia, Barunga Gap, Beaufort, South Australia, Beaufort, Blyth, South Australia, Blyth, Bowillia, South Australia, Bowillia, Bowmans, South Australia, Bowmans, Brinkworth, South Australia, Brinkworth, Bumbunga, South Australia, Bumbunga, Burnsfield, South Australia, Burnsfield, Condowie, South Australia, Condowie, Dalkey, South Australia, Dalkey, Erith, South Australia, Erith, Everard Central, South Australia, Everard Central, Goyder, South Australia, Goyder, Hart, South Australia, Hart, Hope Gap, South Australia, Hope Gap, Hoskin Corner, South Australia, Hoskin Corner, Inkerman, South Australia, Inkerman, Kallora, ...
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Balaklava, South Australia
The town of Balaklava (population 2048, postcode 5461) is located in South Australia, 92 kilometres north of Adelaide in the Mid North region. It is on the south bank of the Wakefield River, east of Port Wakefield. History Since prehistoric times the Balaklava district has been near the boundaries of the Kaurna and Peramangk peoples. The first Europeans to traverse the district were John Hill and Thomas Burr on 29 April 1840. They discovered Diamond Lake and encamped near Owen. The first European settlers in the area were James and Mary Dunn who in 1850 opened a hotel to service bullock teamsters carting copper ore upon the Gulf Road between the Burra mine and the export port of Port Wakefield. The Gulf Road copper ore traffic came to a sudden end in 1857 when a railway connected Gawler to Port Adelaide which provided a more economic path for exporting the ore. The teamster's loads were replaced by a flow of pastoral produce to Port Wakefield, mainly wool and grain. The town w ...
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Avon, South Australia
Avon is a locality, former rail siding and former township between Bowmans and Long Plains in the Mid North region of South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories .... The railway station was on the Adelaide–Port Augusta railway line. The name "Avon" was taken from the Avon Farm settled by the Woods family in 1889. There was a school, post office store and church. The school opened in 1913. A Sunday school hall was built in 1923 and community hall in 1960 References Towns in South Australia {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ...
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Goyder, South Australia
Goyder (; postcode: 5461) is a locality in South Australia's Mid North situated in the central east of the cadastral Hundred of Goyder. It was named for the hundred (proclaimed 1862) which was in turn named for George Goyder, Surveyor General of South Australia at the time. The locality is bounded on the west by the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway line. The Black Range stretches north–south through the locality from the foot of Mount Templeton outside the northern boundary of the locality. Similarly, the Bismark Valley (thought to be named in jest by early settler families of German origin for Otto von Bismarck) runs north to south through the centre of the locality. Traditional occupants According to the ''Manning Index of South Australian History'' the "Kaurna#Alternative names, Nantuwwara [sic] tribe of some 25 to 30 once occupied the country from the Wakefield River, River Wakefield, north to Whitwarta, South Australia, Whitwarta and west to Hummock Range", an area which wo ...
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Everard Central, South Australia
Everard Central (; postcode: 5461) is a locality in South Australia's Mid North. The locality is situated in approximately the southern two thirds of the cadastral Hundred of Everard. Hundred of Everard The Hundred of Everard is the cadastral unit of hundred on the northern Adelaide Plains containing the Everard Central locality. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Stanley. It was named in 1867 by Governor Dominick Daly after William Everard (1819–1889), a South Australian parliamentarian. The southern third of the locality of Condowie is also situated inside the bounds of the Hundred of Everard. Local government In 1888 the Hundred of Everard was annexed to the District Council of Blyth as part of the District Councils Act 1887. Not long after, on 26 September 1889, the hundred was severed from Blyth council and annexed instead to the District Council of Snowtown as the Everard ward. In 1912, at the instigation of resident landowners, a southern portion of th ...
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Erith, South Australia
Erith is a locality on the northern Adelaide Plains in the Mid North of South Australia. It is on the road northwest from Owen towards Bowmans and Port Wakefield Port Wakefield may refer to. Australia *Port Wakefield, South Australia, a town and locality * Port Wakefield railway line, part of the now-closed Balaklava-Moonta railway line in South Australia * Port Wakefield Circuit, a former motor racing cir .... The Erith primary school opened in 1877 but has since closed sometime after 1949. References {{authority control Mid North (South Australia) ...
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Dalkey, South Australia
Dalkey is a locality in the Mid North of South Australia. It was established as a private subdivision of section 171 in the Hundred of Dalkey on the main road from Adelaide to Balaklava. It is named for the Hundred of Dalkey which in turn was named after Dalkey in Ireland. The boundaries of the locality were defined in 2000 for the long-established name. History The Dalkey area was initially used for pasture, but soon settlers found it good for growing wheat, which was carted by horse or bullock wagons to Port Wakefield for further shipment. Dalkey post office opened in 1866 and closed in 1910. When German farmers settled in the area in the 1860s, their settlement was known as Sichem. A Lutheran school was built in 1868, also used as a place of worship until a separate church building was constructed between 1872 and 1875. The District Council of Dalkey was established in 1875 with the council chamber being built at Owen in 1882. The Dalkey Cemetery was registered in 1877. ...
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Condowie, South Australia
Condowie is a locality in South Australia's Mid North. The locality is named for an Aboriginal word meaning "good water". Condowie was a stop on the Brinkworth–Kadina railway line which opened in 1894 and closed in 1990. It was midway between Snowtown and Brinkworth. See also *List of cities and towns in South Australia A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References External linksWakefield Regional Council Towns in South Australia {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ...
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Burnsfield, South Australia
Burnsfield is a locality in South Australia's Mid North. It is north of Snowtown on the eastern side of the Augusta Highway. The locality is named for the Burnsfield railway station which was near the southwestern corner of the locality. The station was named for the Burns family, owners of the land at the time of and prior to the Salisbury-Redhill railway construction in 1925. The Burns family first took up land at the site at the western foot of the Hummocks Range in about 1878. In 2011, an eight-year mining lease was granted to mine salt from a site in the north west of Burnsfield. See also *List of cities and towns in South Australia A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References External linksWakefield Regional Council Towns in South Australia
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Bumbunga, South Australia
Bumbunga is a locality in the Mid North of South Australia north of Adelaide. It lies east of Lake Bumbunga. According to anthropologist Norman Tindale the name was derives from ''parnpangka'', the local indigenous (Kaurna) term for 'rain water lake', referring to Lake Bumbunga. The town administration falls under the control of the Wakefield Regional Council for local governance. Bumbunga lies in the state electoral district of Narungga and in the federal electoral division of Grey. The South Australian Government's ''Atlas of South Australia'' describes the Bumbunga environmental subregion as being a low-lying (mean altitude alluvial plains "with salt lakes and occasional dunes." The atlas further describes the subregion as having "grassland cover used for rotation cereal cultivation and livestock grazing" and "low shrubland used for livestock grazing" on salt lake margins. Located on what was traditionally the land of the Kaurna (indigenous) people, the first pioneers a ...
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Brinkworth, South Australia
Brinkworth (postcode 5464) is a town in the Mid North region of South Australia with a current population of 401. It is north west of the regional centre of Clare. The Brinkworth area was first settled in the 1860s and the town laid out in 1892. Brinkworth is named after the early landowner, George Brinkworth. Transport Brinkworth was a junction on the Gladstone railway line from Adelaide to Gladstone in the north. The other line from Brinkworth went through Snowtown to Kadina and Wallaroo. Both were originally built as narrow gauge . These lines were converted to broad gauge in 1927 but are now closed. Governance Brinkworth is in the local government area of Wakefield Regional Council, the state electoral district of Frome and the federal division of Grey Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without ...
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Bowmans, South Australia
Bowmans (; postcode: 5550) is a locality in South Australia's Mid North. At the 2006 census, Bowmans had a population of 203. It is named after R and C Bowman who were "pastoralists in area." Traditional occupants According to the ''Manning Index of South Australian History'' the " Nantuwwara ictribe of some 25 to 30 once occupied the country from the River Wakefield, north to Whitwarta and west to Hummock Range", an area which would encompass the modern localities of Bowmans, Whitwarta, Goyder, Beaufort, Nantawarra and Mount Templeton. The term Nantuwara (or Nantuwaru) is considered to be a specific name for the northern hordes of the Kaurna people. Stone implements thought to have been used by the Nantuwara people were discovered at sites adjoining the banks of the lower reaches of the River Wakefield and added to a South Australian Museum collection curated by Harold Cooper in the 1960s. Transport and industry Bowmans is passed by the Adelaide-Port Augusta railway ...
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