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Brownlow is a locality in the
Australian state
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of
South Australia
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about north-east of the
Adelaide city centre
Its boundaries were created for the “long established name” for the western part in August 2000 which is located within the
Regional Council of Goyder and for the eastern part in March 2003 which is located within the
Mid Murray Council. The name comes from the older cadastral land division in which Brownlow lies, the Hundred of Brownlow, which was named for
Charles Henry Brownlow.
The principal land use within the locality is
agriculture
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...
involving "extensive grazing."
Brownlow is located within the federal divisions of
Barker
Barker may refer to:
Occupations
* Barker (occupation), a person who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment events
* Barker (coachbuilder), a builder of horse-drawn coaches and later of bodywork for prestige cars
* a person who strips tanbar ...
and
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 color", because it can be composed o ...
, the state
electoral district of Stuart
Stuart is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. At 323,131 km², it is a vast country district extending from the Spencer Gulf as far as the Northern Territory border in the north and the Queenslan ...
and the local government areas of the Mid Murray Council and Regional Council of Goyder.
Hundred of Brownlow
The Hundred of Brownlow is the
cadastral unit of
hundred containing the Brownlow locality.
It is one of the 16 hundreds of the
County of Eyre
The County of Eyre is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor George Grey in 1842 and named for the explorer Edward John Eyre. It covers a portion of the state between the Adelaide Hills in the west an ...
.
It was named in 1883 by Governor
William Jervois
Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois (10 September 1821 – 17 August 1897) was a British military engineer and diplomat. After joining the British Army in 1839, he saw service, as a second captain, in South Africa. In 18 ...
after
Charles Henry Brownlow (1831–1916), a senior (British) Indian Army officer at the time.
The locality of Brownlow occupies the majority of the land area of the Hundred of Brownlow, but parts of
Bower
Bower may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Catherine, or The Bower'', an unfinished Jane Austen novel
* A high-ranking card (usually a Jack) in certain card games:
** The Right and Left Bower (or Bauer), the two highest-ranking cards in the g ...
and
Mount Mary occupy smaller portions in the north of the hundred and part of
Steinfeld overlaps the southern boundary.
See also
*
Brownlow (disambiguation)
*
Lands administrative divisions of South Australia
The lands administrative divisions of South Australia are the cadastral (i.e., comprehensively surveyed and mapped) units of counties and hundreds in South Australia. They are located only in the south-eastern part of the state, and do not cove ...
References
Towns in South Australia
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