The Hundred of Townsend is a

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unit of

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located in the

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region in the south-east of South Australia. It is one of the 18 hundreds of the

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. It was named in April 1878 by Governor

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for South Australian settler and member of parliament,

William Townsend William Townsend may refer to: *William Townsend (mayor) (1821–1882), Australian politician *William Townsend (cricketer) (1821–1891), English cricketer and barrister *William Townsend (Oneida County, NY) (1848–1919), New York politician *Wil ...

. There are no townships within the hundred, the nearest township being that of

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about east of the central eastern border of the hundred. The Government Town of Downer, also known as Avenue for the "parallel arrangement of the swamp flats and stringybark ridges in the area", was surveyed and proclaimed within the hundred on 9 December 1886. The town failed to develop. The Avenue Railway Station had been established at the planned town site on the

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since 1876. In 1940 the name of the locality was officially changed to Avenue with the modern bounded locality of Avenue Range now surrounding the planned town site and covering all land in the hundred apart from a strip on the eastern side which sits in the bounded locality of Lucindale.

Local government

In 1888 the Hundred of Townsend was annexed to the District Council of Lucindale as part of the ''

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''. In 1998 it became part of the

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following the amalgamation of Lucindale with the

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Limestone Coast

Local government

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