Dawlish is a former government town whose site is located in the locality of
Erskine north of
Peterborough, South Australia
Peterborough is a town in the mid north of South Australia, in wheat country, just off the Barrier Highway. At the , Peterborough had a population of 1,419. It was originally named Petersburg after the landowner, Peter Doecke, who sold land to c ...
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The area is arid and although a town was laid out,
[Frazer S. Crawford,]
Dawlish : Hundred of Erskine
(Adelaide, 1882). on 8 June 1882 but it never developed. ''"In 1964, as there was no demand for allotments, the few that had been sold were acquired compulsorily by the Crown and reverted back to broad acres."''
[ South Australian Names]
The name comes from
Devon, England, where in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
the
Town of Dawlish was recorded as Doelis or ‘hallowed place’
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References
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Ghost towns in South Australia