The Hundred of Kanmantoo is a
cadastral
A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref>
Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...
unit of
hundred
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ...
in the eastern
Adelaide Hills.
One of the 10 hundreds of the
County of Sturt, it was proclaimed on 13 November 1847 by Governor
Frederick Robe
Major-General Frederick Holt Robe CB (1801 – 4 April 1871) was the fourth Governor of South Australia, from 25 October 1845 to 2 August 1848.
Robe entered the Royal Staff Corps as an ensign in 1817, following his father, Sir William Robe wh ...
and named after the
Kanmantoo gold mine, itself presumed to be named after an indigenous term by
William Giles.
Apart from the town of
Kanmantoo the following towns and localities of the
Mount Barker District Council
The Mount Barker District Council is a local government area centred on the town of Mount Barker just outside the Adelaide metropolitan area in South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern centra ...
are within (or partly within) the Hundred of Kanmantoo:
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Harrogate
Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa w ...
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Brukunga
Brukunga is a small town in the Adelaide Hills, located approximately east of Adelaide and north of the town of Nairne.
History
Its name, derived from ''Barrukungga'' in the local Kaurna language, means "place of fire stone" or the "place ...
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Dawesley
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Nairne (most part)
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Hay Valley (most part)
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Mount Barker Summit (east half)
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Petwood
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Mount Barker Springs (east half)
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St Ives
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Callington
Callington ( kw, Kelliwik) is a civil parish and town in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom about north of Saltash and south of Launceston.
Callington parish had a population of 4,783 in 2001, according to the 2001 census. This had inc ...
(half west of
Bremer River)
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Mount Torrens
Mount Torrens is a town in the eastern Adelaide Hills region of South Australia, 46 kilometres east-north-east of the state capital, Adelaide and 8 km east of Lobethal. It is located in the Adelaide Hills Council and the Mid Murray Counci ...
(south portion)
An eastern portion of Woodside (in the
Adelaide Hills Council
Adelaide Hills Council is a local government area in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. It is in the hills east of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, and extends from the South Para Reservoir in the north to the Mount Bold Reservoir ...
area) is also within the hundred, crossing the western border.
Local government
The
District Council of Nairne was established in 1853, incorporating the Hundred of Kanmantoo as well as the
Hundred of Monarto
The Hundred of Monarto is a cadastral unit of hundred, the centre of which lies about east southeast of Adelaide in South Australia and about west of the Murray River. One of the ten hundreds of the County of Sturt, it is bounded on the west by ...
. Following the amalgamation of Nairne council into the new
District Council of Mount Barker
The Mount Barker District Council is a local government area centred on the town of Mount Barker just outside the Adelaide metropolitan area in South Australia.
The council was first established in October 1853. It expanded to four times its o ...
in 1935, the hundred has been a ward or wards within the latter. the hundred is largely occupied by the North ward, with areas near the
South Eastern Freeway
South Eastern Freeway is a freeway in South Australia (SA). It is a part of the National Highway network linking the state capital cities of Adelaide, SA, and Melbourne, Victoria, and signed as National Highway M1. It carries traffic over t ...
falling into the Central ward.
See also
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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
{{Hundreds of South Australia
Kanmantoo
1847 establishments in Australia