The District Council of Para Wirra was a

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from 1854 to 1935, seated at

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(later called Kersbrook). It occupied the western half of the

Hundred of Para Wirra The Hundred of Para Wirra is a cadastral hundred of the County of Adelaide, South Australia, spanning a portion of the Adelaide Hills north of the Torrens Valley including Mount Crawford. Location The hundred spans a large number of Adelaide Hi ...

, the eastern remainder being administered by the

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, which was established the same day. The Mount Gould Range and the present-day

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form what was once the boundary between Para Wirra and Mount Crawford.

History

In 1935 Para Wirra amalgamated with the

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to form the new and

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References

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