Cox Creek (South Australia)

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Cox Creek, also Cox's Creek, previously Cock's Creek, is a small stream in the southern Adelaide Hills. Cox's Creek was also the name of the settlement which became Bridgewater, South Australia.

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Description

The creek arises near Uraidla and flows in a southerly direction through the Piccadilly Valley, and joins the Onkaparinga River south of Bridgewater [1] near the Mylor bridge.

Naming

Robert Cock emigrated with his family to South Australia on HMS Buffalo, arriving in December 1836. He led a small exploration party from Adelaide to Lake Alexandrina in 1837, on Christmas Day camping at, and with some difficulty crossing, the creek which was named for him. [2]

A settlement was later formed on the creek, some few kilometres from where Cock and party made their crossing, first naming it "Cock's Creek", then "Cox's Creek", [3] finally "Bridgewater" named after James Addison's Bridgewater Hotel and John Dunn's Bridgewater Mill, which was powered by water from a dam on the creek. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cox Creek, Piccadilly Valley; 2015 Report". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "A Jewell Casket". The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser . SA. 5 August 1948. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2015– via Trove.
  3. ↑ "Advertising". South Australian Register . XIX, (2645). South Australia. 16 March 1855. p. 4. Retrieved 28 November 2020– via Trove.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) Evidence of Bridgewater Hotel operating while the township was still Cox's Creek
  4. ↑ John Dunn (17 December 1886). "Memories of Eighty Years". The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser . SA. p. 4. Retrieved 28 November 2020– via Trove.

Coordinates: 35°01′47″S138°46′49″E / 35.02971°S 138.78030°E / -35.02971; 138.78030

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