The Hundred of Strathalbyn is a cadastral division of the
County of Hindmarsh
The County of Hindmarsh is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor George Grey in 1842 and named for Governor John Hindmarsh.
Description
It extends from the Fleurieu Peninsula in the southwest t ...
in
South Australia
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. It lies west of the
Adelaide Hills and east of
Lake Alexandrina and includes at its southwestern extremity the town of
Strathalbyn. Its name is derived from that used for a sub-division granted in 1841. No definitive derivation for the subdivision of Strathalbyn name is known but it is deemed probable that
John Rankine
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or his brother William provided the name with the meaning given as "white valley" from the
Scottish ''
srath'' and ''
albion
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''.
Mount Barker Creek forms much of the northern hundred boundary while the
Bremer River forms the eastern border.
The localities of
Highland Valley,
Red Creek,
Salem and the township of
Woodchester
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are also within the hundred along with parts of
Belvidere,
Bletchley
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Bletchley is best known ...
,
Gemmells,
Hartley
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Places Australia
*Hartley, New South Wales
*Hartley, South Australia
**Electoral district of Hartley, a state electoral district
Canada
*Hartley Bay, British Columbia
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*Hartley, Cumbria
*Hartley, Plymou ...
, and
Langhorne Creek. Parts of the
Bugle Ranges,
Mount Barker,
Mount Barker Springs,
Petwood and
Wistow localities also overlap the northwestern part of the hundred.
Local government
The
District Council of Strathalbyn
The District Council of Strathalbyn was a local government area in South Australia centred on the town of Strathalbyn from 1854 until 1997. From 1868 the township itself was locally governed by the Corporation of Strathalbyn but that entity was ...
was established within the south of the hundred in 1854. The
Corporated Town of Strathalbyn seceded in 1868 to formed dedicated local government for the township until it re-amalgamated with the district council in 1976.
In 1997 the Strathalbyn council was dissolved and absorbed into the new and much larger
Alexandrina Council
Alexandrina Council is a local government area in the Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island region of South Australia. The Alexandrina Council was formed on 1 July 1997 by the amalgamation of the District Council of Port Elliot and Goolwa, the District ...
.
References
{{Hundreds of South Australia
Strathalbyn
1850 establishments in Australia