Paisley is a locality in the Murray Mallee region of

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, across the Murray River from Blanchetown, South Australia. It was formally named in September 2000 for the

Hundred of Paisley 100 or one hundred (Roman numerals, Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 (number), 99 and preceding 101 (number), 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five 20 (number), score in order to different ...

which contains it. The Hundred of Paisley was named by

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MacDonnell in 1861 for his private secretary, J. G. Paisley. The

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crosses the northwestern corner of Paisley at the eastern end of the Blanchetown Bridge over the Murray River. The Advent Lutheran Church Blanchetown is actually in Paisley, a few hundred metres north of the eastern end of the bridge.

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