Type: | town |
Sandergrove | |
State: | SA |
Postcode: | 5255 |
Elevation: | 43 |
Dist1: | 9 |
Dir1: | S |
Location1: | Strathalbyn |
Lga: | Alexandrina Council |
County: | Hindmarsh |
Region: | Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island[1] |
Stategov: | Heysen |
Fedgov: | Mayo |
Coordinates: | -35.3333°N 138.8719°W |
Near-N: | Strathalbyn |
Near-E: | Angas Plains Nurragi |
Near-Se: | Nurragi |
Near-S: | Finniss |
Near-Sw: | Finniss |
Near-W: | Ashbourne Finniss |
Near-Nw: | Strathalbyn |
Footnotes: | Adjoining localities[2] |
Sandergrove is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia about 9 km (5.5 mi) south of Strathalbyn. It was a junction on the Victor Harbor railway line, where the Milang railway line branched off. The railway was authorised in 1881[3] and closed in 1970.[4]
The north-western end of the Nurragi Conservation Reserve, a private protected area which follows the alignment of the former Milang railway line as a rail trail, terminates at Sandergrove.[5]
In 1863, the Strathalbyn Methodist circuit included a church at Sandergrove. It still existed in 1900,[6] but it was not part of the circuit by 1963.The Sandergrove Primary School opened in 1923, but has since closed.[7]