Lindley, South Australia Explained

Type:town
Lindley
State:sa
Coordinates:-33.8871°N 139.6129°W
Coord Ref:[1]
Established:1881
Postcode:5320
Lga:Mid Murray Council
County:Burra
Region:Murray and Mallee
Stategov:Stuart
Fedgov:Barker
Maxtemp:25.3
Maxtemp Footnotes:[2]
Mintemp:9.3
Rainfall:281.5
Near-N:Warnes
Near-Ne:Bunyung
Near-E:Stuart
Near-Se:Morgan
Near-S:Eba
Near-Sw:Beatty
Near-W:Maude
Near-Nw:Warnes

Lindley is a locality in Mid Murray Council in the Mid North of South Australia, north of Morgan, South Australia. Its boundaries are coincident with the cadastral Hundred of Lindley in the County of Burra. The Goyder Highway traverses the southwestern corner of the locality.

The locality boundaries were set in March 2003 to conform to the Hundred boundaries.[3] The Hundred was named in 1881 for John Lindley, a botanist and horticulturalist who was assistant librarian for Sir Joseph Banks and Professor of Botany at London University.[4]

Much of the land was selected by settlers in 1881 soon after the Hundred was surveyed for closer settlement. It was bought from the government for a basic price of £1 per acre plus any existing improvements, and the buyers were named in the Government Gazette.[5] Land was able to be bought on credit, and the buyer given time to improve the land before needing to make the payment for their land.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Search results for 'Lindley, LOCB" with the following datasets selected – ‘Suburbs and Localities’, 'Counties', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions' and ‘Gazetteer’ . Location SA Map Viewer . Government of South Australian . 1 December 2018 .
  2. Web site: Summary (climate) statistics GLUEPOT RESERVE (GLUEPOT) (nearest weather station) . Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 1 December 2018.
  3. Web site: Placename Details: Lindley . SA0031945 . Property Location Browser Report . 19 June 2008 . 19 March 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 .
  4. Web site: Placename Details: Hundred of Lindley . SA0039512 . Property Location Browser Report . 29 January 2009 . 19 March 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ . 12 October 2016 .
  5. Web site: Newly-opened Country Lands . . No. 54 . 15 December 1881 . 1789–1790 (PDF pages 45–46) . 19 March 2017.