Gawler Belt, South Australia

Gawler Belt
Gawler Belt; South Australia
	Gawler Belt Inn in 1880
	Gawler Belt
Coordinates	34°36′S138°42′E / 34.6°S 138.7°E Coordinates: 34°36′S138°42′E / 34.6°S 138.7°E
Postcode(s)	5118
Location	4 km (2 mi) NW of Gawler
LGA(s)	Light Regional Council
State electorate(s)	Electoral district of Light
Federal Division(s)	Spence
	Localities around Gawler Belt:

Last updated August 24, 2019

Gawler Belt is a locality to the northwest of Gawler in South Australia. The area is predominantly rural in character, although most of the area is now too small allotments to farm profitably, so it is essentially a rural and industrial suburb of Gawler.

Gawler is the oldest country town on the Australian mainland in the state of South Australia, and is named after the second Governor of the colony of South Australia, George Gawler. It is about 40–44 km (25–27 mi) north of the centre of the state capital, Adelaide, and is close to the major wine producing district of the Barossa Valley. Topographically, Gawler lies at the confluence of two tributaries of the Gawler River, the North and South Para rivers, where they emerge from a range of low hills.

South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second largest centre, has a population of 28,684.

An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where zoning promotes industry, or they may be industrial towns that become suburbs by urban sprawl of the nearby big city.

Gawler Belt is bounded on its southeast side by the Gawler bypass road and Sturt Highway. It is crossed by the now-unused Roseworthy railway line, but there has never been a station in Gawler Belt.^[1] The Gawler Belt Inn stood approximately where the Redbanks Road interchange on the Gawler Bypass is now,^[2] however the hotel was closed well before the bypass was built. The Inn operated from 1857 until 1913.^[3]

Gawler Bypass Road is a major north-south route in the outer northern suburbs of the city of Adelaide, South Australia. It had the national designation of National Highway A20 north of the Northern Expressway, while south of this intersection it had the state designation of A52. From late 2016, the entire length was designated A20, corresponding to the Northern Expressway being designated M2.

The Sturt Highway is an Australian national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. The Sturt Highway is an important road link for the transport of passengers and freight between Sydney and Adelaide and the regions situated adjacent to the route.

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References

↑ "Placename Details: Gawler Belt". Property Location Browser. Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. 2 November 2006. SA0025586. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
↑ "Gawler History" . Retrieved 26 August 2015.
↑ "Gawler Belt Inn". Now&Then Gawler. Gawler History Team Inc. Retrieved 26 August 2015.

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[1] "Placename Details: Gawler Belt". Property Location Browser. Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. 2 November 2006. SA0025586. Retrieved 26 August 2015.

[2] "Gawler History" . Retrieved 26 August 2015.

[3] "Gawler Belt Inn". Now&Then Gawler. Gawler History Team Inc. Retrieved 26 August 2015.