Narridy is a locality in the Mid North region of

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, situated within the

Northern Areas Council Northern Areas Council is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. The council seat and main council offices are at Jamestown, while the council also maintains district offices at Gladstone and Spalding. ...

. The surrounding cadastral Hundred of Narridy was proclaimed by Governor Sir James Fergusson in 1871 as part of the areas opened up for selection under the

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. The government town of Narridy was surveyed in July of the same year. The modern locality was established in April 2001 for the long established name, and formally absorbed the former government town. The current boundaries do not cover the entire Hundred of Narridy: the north-eastern quarter lies in Georgetown, while the village of

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to the north-west has been gazetted as a separate locality. It was the seat of its own municipality, the

District Council of Narridy The District Council of Narridy was a local government area in South Australia, centred on the town of Narridy and the surrounding cadastral hundred of the same name. It was proclaimed on 2 March 1876 with responsibility for the Hundred of Narrid ...

, from 1876 to 1888. Narridy Post Office opened in December 1873 and closed on 31 August 1974. The Narridy Cemetery was gazetted on 7 September 1872 and reverted to Crown land on 9 July 1985. It formerly had a hotel, the Narridy Hotel, which served as a meeting place for the local area. The building had a dramatic partial collapse on 19 August 1904 and does not appear to have reopened. The liquor license was transferred to a new hotel at Gulnare in June 1907, and the remainder of the building and fittings were advertised for sale in the same month. The license transfer was the source of some controversy, but it was successful, and the building was subsequently let to a local resident. In 1876, Narridy was described as "a smaller place but the centre of an important district", boasting Messrs. Porter & Roberts's mill, "a fine hotel, a saddler's, a wheelwright's and blacksmith's shop, a store, a chapel and schoolroom and a few private buildings". The village had declined sharply by 1905, when another visiting journalist described Narridy as "not nearly so flourishing as in the early days of its existence, and in point of size the town is one of the smallest on the map. One store and a public house about comprise the business places, but several dilapidated buildings and ruins testify to past prosperity." The Country Fire Service station at Narridy opened in 1957.

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{{authority control Mid North (South Australia) Towns in South Australia