Bagot Well (previously Bagot's Well) is a locality around 6 km north-east of
Kapunda, South Australia on the road to
Eudunda
Eudunda is a rural town in South Australia, roughly 103 kilometres northeast of Adelaide, established in 1870 after settlers began moving into the area in the 1860s. As of the 2006 census, Eudunda had a population of 640.
Eudunda is in the Regio ...
and was named for Captain
C. H. Bagot, who owned a great deal of property in the area.
Bagot Well as a place began as a well sunk by Captain Bagot which became available for public use in 1855. On 5 December 1940, it was renamed from Bagot's Well to Bagot Well. On 16 March 2000, boundaries for the locality were created for the "long established name."
Bagot Well was served by the
Morgan railway line
The Morgan railway line or North-West Bend railway was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network.
History
The first section of the line opened from Gawler. It was built to service the copper mining at Kapunda, opened on 13 August ...
from when it was extended from Kapunda in 1878. The line closed in 1994, but passenger service had ceased much earlier and freight trains carrying bulk grain from Eudunda to Port Adelaide did not stop there.
The Postcode for Bagot Well is 5373.
The
2016 Australian census
The 2016 Australian census was the 17th national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as – an incre ...
which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Bagot Well had a population of 84 people.
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Towns in South Australia