Flaxley is a small settlement in the Adelaide Hills located 39 km south-east of the centre of the city of

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. It is situated in-between the larger towns of

Echunga Echunga ( ) is a small town in the Adelaide Hills located south-east of Adelaide in South Australia. The area was settled by Europeans during the period of British colonisation of South Australia in 1839, with the town laid out in 1849. The na ...

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and

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. It is based near the property "Battunga" meaning "rolling hills" in Aboriginal vocabulary. The property was purchased by English settler

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in 1843. After Robert died in 1896, the property remained in the Davenport family until 1914 when it was purchased by Professor

William Lowrie William Lowrie (18 October 1857 – 20 July 1933)Alan W. Black,, ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, 1986, pp 160-161. Retrieved 2009-09-16 was an Australian agricultural educationist. Lowrie was the s ...

, agriculturalist and Principal of

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, South Australia. Professor Lowrie was able to carry out much important research at Battunga, including work on the use of super-phosphate on South Australian farms. The first church in Flaxley was built on the property which also served as a school. A Methodist church (which is now Uniting) was built in 1874. From 1899 to 1943 it was also used as a school. Although small, Flaxley is a historically important link in the regions history. It has a church, tennis club and a community hall. The name is taken from the village

Flaxley Flaxley is a small settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Blaisdon, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It is located in between the larger villages of Westbury-on-Severn and Mitcheldean. In 1931 the parish had a ...

in Gloucestershire. Flaxley is part of the Battunga Country region in the Southern Mount Lofty Ranges.

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