The Hundred of Blyth is a
cadastral
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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 ...
on the northern
Adelaide Plains of South Australia centred on the township of
Blyth.
It is one of the 16 hundreds of the
County of Stanley.
It was named in 1860 by Governor
Richard MacDonnell after
Arthur Blyth who arrived in South Australia as a teenager in 1839 and went on to become a local businessman, parliamentarian and thrice the premier of South Australia.
Apart from the town of Blyth the locality of
Kybunga is also in the hundred, and the historic settlement of
Bowillia is on the eastern boundary of the hundred.
Local government
On 11 January 1872 the
District Council of Blyth was established, bringing local government to the hundred. Following the amalgamation in 1987 of Blyth council with the
District Council of Snowtown the hundred became part of the
District Council of Blyth-Snowtown, being still divided into the three wards of Blyth, Central and Kybunga. From 1997, the entire hundred became part of the North ward of the
Wakefield Regional Council
Wakefield Regional Council is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. The council seat is at Balaklava.
Geography
The Wakefield Regional Council includes the towns and localities of Avon, Balaklava, Bar ...
, following the amalgamation of Blyth-Snowtown council with the
District Council of Wakefield Plains.
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 ...
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Blyth
1860 establishments in Australia