| Woolsheds South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Woolsheds | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°29′S138°38′E / 34.48°S 138.64°E Coordinates: 34°29′S138°38′E / 34.48°S 138.64°E | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5400 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 18 km (11 mi) northwest of Gawler | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Light Regional Council | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Schubert | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | [1] | ||||||||||||||
Woolsheds is a locality in the lower Mid North of South Australia north of the road between Gawler and Mallala.
The Mid North is a region of South Australia, north of the Adelaide Plains, but not as far north as the Far North, or the outback. It is generally accepted to extend from Spencer Gulf east to the Barrier Highway, including the coastal plain, the southern part of the Flinders Ranges, and the northern part of the Mount Lofty Ranges. The area was settled as early as 1840 and provided early farming and mining outputs for the fledgling colony. Farming is still significant in the area, particularly wheat, sheep and grapevines. There are not currently any significant mining activities in the Mid North.
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.
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.
The Country Fire Service shed at Woolsheds is signed as Woolsheds-Wasleys. It is across the road from the former Woolsheds Methodist Church.
The church was originally in the Gawler then Gawler West Methodist circuits and later in the Hamley Bridge then Adelaide Plains Methodist circuits, [2] but has been closed for many years. The church was built in 1875 as a Bible Christian chapel. It became Methodist on church union in 1901. The church (and hence the locality) received the name "woolsheds" due to it being near to the woolshed on a neighbouring property. [3]
Gawler West, is a suburb of the South Australian town of Gawler, located in the northern Adelaide metropolitan area region, 43 km north of Adelaide. It is bordered by the Gawler River and the Gawler railway line and the suburbs of Gawler South, and Evanston. During the 2000s period, part of the suburb was renamed Reid by the South Australian Geographical Names Advisory Committee, replacing the Gawler Bypass Road as the western boundary by the Gawler River on the west and north.
Hamley Bridge is a community in South Australia located at the junction of the Gilbert and Light rivers, as well as the site of a former railway junction.
The Methodist Church of Australasia was a Methodist denomination based in Australia. On 1 January 1902, five Methodist denominations in Australia – the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodists, the Bible Christian Church, the United Methodist Free and the Methodist New Connexion Churches came together to found a new church. In polity it largely followed the Wesleyan Methodist Church. This Church established a General Conference, meeting triennially, for Australasia in 1875, with Annual Conferences in the States.
