Merriton is a locality in South Australia beside the Augusta Highway between Crystal Brook and Redhill. [1] The town was named in the 1870s for the president of the local cricket club, George Merrit, by John Millar, former member of parliament. [1]
Merriton is a locality in South Australia beside the Augusta Highway between Crystal Brook and Redhill. [1] The town was named in the 1870s for the president of the local cricket club, George Merrit, by John Millar, former member of parliament. [1]
Merriton was originally a private subdivision of section 97 of the Hundred of Crystal Brook, County of Victoria, at the point just south of where the main road from Clements Gap to Crystal Brook crossed the Broughton River. [2] The name and boundaries for the long-established locality were formalised in 2001. [1]
Crystal Brook is a town in the Mid North of South Australia, 197 kilometres north of the capital, Adelaide. It was named after the spring-fed creek next to which it was founded. In 2016 the population of the agricultural town was 1,515. Crystal Brook is the second largest town after the city of Port Pirie in the Southern Flinders Ranges area. The shady peppercorn trees grace the main street, Bowman Street. The area where the present town is now was founded in 1839 by Edward John Eyre who was passing through the region. He named it after the beautiful sparkling clear water and named it 'Chrystal Brook'.
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The District Council of Crystal Brook was a local government area in South Australia from 1882 until 1988, seated at Crystal Brook.
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The Hundred of Crystal Brook is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia in the approach to the lower Flinders Ranges. It is one of the hundreds of the County of Victoria and was named by Governor James Fergusson after the stream of the same name which flows east to west near the northern border of the hundred.
The Hundred of Caltowie is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia centred on the township of Caltowie. It is one of the 14 hundreds of the County of Victoria and was proclaimed by Governor James Fergusson in July 1871.
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Originally a private subdivision of section 97. John Millar, an ex-legsilator, named the subdivision in the 1870s. George Merrit was the President of the local cricket club. Boundaries created in April 2001 for long established name.[ permanent dead link ]
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