Ashbourne, South Australia

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Ashbourne
South Australia
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Ashbourne
Coordinates 35°16′58″S138°46′12″E / 35.28278°S 138.77000°E / -35.28278; 138.77000
Population308 (SAL 2021) [1]
Postcode(s) 5157 [2]
Location43 km (27 mi) from Adelaide
LGA(s) Alexandrina Council [3]
Region Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island [4]
County Hindmarsh [3]
State electorate(s) Heysen [3]
Federal division(s) Mayo [3]
Localities around Ashbourne:
Bull Creek
McHarg Creek 		Bull Creek
Paris Creek 		Paris Creek
Strathalbyn
McHarg Creek
Mount Magnificent 		Ashbourne Strathalbyn
Sandergrove
Nangkita Nangkita
Mount Observation
Finniss 		Sandergrove
Finniss
FootnotesLocations [2]
Adjoining localities [3]

Ashbourne is a small town in South Australia situated roughly halfway between Meadows and Goolwa, approximately 14 kilometres from the town of Strathalbyn and 43 kilometres from Adelaide.

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History

Ashbourne was laid out in 1865 by C. S. Keeling on Bull's Creek in part of his land in the district known as "Finniss Flat". [5]

School

The Eastern Fleurieu R-12 School in Ashbourne, founded in 1996, is a multi-campus Reception to Year 12 school.

Cricket

Despite its small size, Ashbourne has a premier cricket club with several senior and junior-grade teams. The Ashbourne Cricket Club, wearing green and gold and known as the Bulls, was established in 1895 and has enjoyed strong links to the Adelaide Oval since that time with founding member and local identity Harry Meyers being closely affiliated with the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA). The soil that formed the Adelaide oval pitches was initially sourced from Ashbourne due to the high suitability of the black clay soils found in the area. The Ashbourne Cricket Club is the longest continuous running club in the Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges and has enjoyed a large degree of success since their formation, particularly from the 1900s to the 1950s where the club dominated the Alexandra Cricket Association. The superb grounds and turf wicket playing surfaces are regarded as being amongst the best in the Greater Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu Peninsula and Murray Lands Regions.

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Ashbourne (SA) (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 "Ashbourne, South Australia (Postcode)". postcodes-australia.com. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Search result(s) for Ashbourne (LOCB) (Record No. SA0003394) with the following layers being selected – "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities", "Local Government Areas", "Counties", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "MEADOWS". South Australian Register . Adelaide. 2 October 1865. p. 3. Retrieved 14 April 2014– via National Library of Australia.



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