The Hundred of Jellicoe (formerly Hundred of North Rhine) is a
cadastral hundred in 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 ...
in
South Australia. It is located on the east
Mount Lofty Ranges foothills. The Hundred of North Rhine was proclaimed in 1851
but the name was changed in 1918 to the current, after Admiral
John Jellicoe, as part of a
process to remove "names of enemy origin" at the time of World War I.
The Hundred of Jellicoe includes the township and most of the locality of
Truro,
Towitta,
Keyneton
Keyneton is a locality in South Australia. The town is in the Mid Murray Council local government area, north-east of the state capital, Adelaide. At the 2011 census, Keyneton and the surrounding area had a population of 534.
The town was name ...
and a portion of the western edge of the locality of
Sedan.
The original name "North Rhine" is in reference to the North Rhine River, a tributary of the
Marne River (formerly known as South Rhine). The North Rhine flows southwards through the hundred from its source at the north western boundary between
Moculta and
Keyneton
Keyneton is a locality in South Australia. The town is in the Mid Murray Council local government area, north-east of the state capital, Adelaide. At the 2011 census, Keyneton and the surrounding area had a population of 534.
The town was name ...
(part of the western boundary between the
Hundred of Moorooroo and Jellicoe) to join the Marne about east of
Eden Valley. Pioneer
Johann Menge named the North and South Rhine, not for any particular similarity to the
River Rhine
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of western Europe, but because he expected a similar yield of wine from the region.
Local governance
The first council in the area was the
District Council of North Rhine
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
, renamed in 1918 like the hundred, to Keyneton, after the main township in the hundred. In 1933 the council amalgamated with the
District Council of Swan Reach
The District Council of Swan Reach (formerly District Council of Blanchetown) was a local government area in the Murraylands of South Australia from 1888 to 1933.
History
The council was established in January 1888 by promulgation of the Distri ...
to form the new
District Council of Keyneton and Swan Reach.
See also
*
Lands administrative divisions of South Australia
References
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External links
Map of Hundred of North Rhine in 1892
Jellicoe
1851 establishments in Australia