Hundred of English

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South Australia
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Coordinates 34°00′S139°06′E / 34.0°S 139.1°E / -34.0; 139.1 Coordinates: 34°00′S139°06′E / 34.0°S 139.1°E / -34.0; 139.1
Established12 July 1866
Area113 square miles (290 km2) [1]
County Eyre
Lands administrative divisions around English:
Apoinga Bright Bundey
Waterloo English Bower
Julia Creek Neales

The Hundred of English is a cadastral unit of hundred containing all or part of the localities of Brady Creek (also in Hundred of Apoinga), Robertstown (extends into both Hundreds of Apoinga and Bright), Rocky Plain, Geranium Plains (spans hundreds of Bright, Bundey and Bower), Ngapala, Point Pass, Australia Plains (also in Hundred of Bower) and Eudunda (mostly in Hundred of Neales). [1] It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Eyre. [2] It was named in 1866 by Governor of South Australia, Dominick Daly after T English MLC (1820–1884), a former mayor of Adelaide and current Member of the colony's Legislative Council at the time. [1]

Local government came to the Hundred of English when the District Council of English was established on 31 October 1878, with boundaries the same as the hundred. [3] The Hundred of English became the English and Point Pass wards of the District Council of Robertstown in 1932. It became part of the much larger Regional Council of Goyder in 1997. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Search result for 'Hundred of English' (ID SA0022679)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  2. South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.
  3. Marsden, Susan (2012). "A History of South Australian Councils to 1936" (PDF). Local Government Association of South Australia. p. 11. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  4. "Cabinet Documents, January 1997". Department of Premier and Cabinet. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.