Hundred of Townsend explained

Type:cadastral
Townsend
State:sa
County:Robe
Region:Limestone Coast
Lga:Naracoorte Lucindale
Established:11 April 1878
Established Footnotes:[1]
Coordinates:-36.967°N 140.204°W
Area:119sqmi
Near-Nw:Murrabinna
Near-N:Minecrow
Near-Ne:Woolumbool
Near-E:Joyce
Near-Se:Joyce
Near-S:Conmurra
Near-Sw:Ross
Near-W:Bowaka

The Hundred of Townsend is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Limestone Coast region in the south-east of South Australia.[2]

It is one of the 18 hundreds of the County of Robe.[3] It was named in April 1878 by Governor William Jervois for South Australian settler and member of parliament, William Townsend.[4]

There are no townships within the hundred, the nearest township being that of Lucindale about east of the central eastern border of the hundred. The Government Town of Downer, also known as Avenue for the "parallel arrangement of the swamp flats and stringybark ridges in the area",[5] was surveyed and proclaimed within the hundred on 9 December 1886. The town failed to develop.[6] The Avenue Railway Station had been established at the planned town site on the Kingston-Naracoorte railway line since 1876.[7] In 1940 the name of the locality was officially changed to Avenue with the modern bounded locality of Avenue Range now surrounding the planned town site and covering all land in the hundred apart from a strip on the eastern side which sits in the bounded locality of Lucindale.

Local government

In 1888 the Hundred of Townsend was annexed to the District Council of Lucindale as part of the District Councils Act 1887.[8] In 1998 it became part of the Naracoorte Lucindale Council following the amalgamation of Lucindale with the District Council of Naracoorte.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Morgan . William . Untitled proclamation re Hundreds of Minecrow, Townsend, Conmurra and Menzies . The South Australian Government Gazette . Government of South Australia . 31 January 2020 . 852 . 11 April 1878.
  2. Web site: Placename Details: Hundred of Townsend . Property Location Browser . SA0008976 . . 29 January 2009 . 16 July 2018 . Derivation of Name: Hon W Townsend, MP 1857-1882; Other Details: Area 119 square miles . 7 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151207082745/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . dead .
  3. Book: South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360 . Surveyor General's Office . 1867.
  4. Web site: Townsend, Hundred of . Manning Index of South Australian Place Names . . Geoffrey Manning . Geoff . Manning . 16 July 2018.
  5. Web site: Placename Details: Avenue Range . Property Location Browser . SA0054134 . . 4 March 2010 . 16 July 2018 . 7 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151207082745/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . dead .
  6. Web site: Placename Details: Downer . Property Location Browser . SA0020608 . . 12 May 2011 . 16 July 2018 . Date Named: 9/12/1886; Other Details: Town surveyed in October 1985. Originally proclaimed as Downer. Name altered to Avenue on 19/9/1940 to prevent dual names for one locality. Now incorporated into the bounded locality of Avenue Range. . 7 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151207082745/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . dead .
  7. Web site: Placename Details: Avenue Railway Station . Property Location Browser . SA0052149 . . 3 January 2008 . 16 July 2018 . 7 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151207082745/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . dead .
  8. Web site: The District Councils Act 1887 No. 419 . Flinders University . 27 March 2015 . 90.

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