Hundred of Townsend

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

Townsend South Australia
Plan of the Hundred of Townsend in 1885
Townsend
Coordinates	36°58′01″S 140°12′14″E / 36.967°S 140.204°E / -36.967; 140.204
Established	11 April 1878^[1]
Area	310 square kilometres (119 sq mi)
LGA(s)	Naracoorte Lucindale
Region	Limestone Coast
County	Robe
Lands administrative divisions around Townsend: Murrabinna Minecrow Woolumbool Bowaka Townsend Joyce Ross Conmurra Joyce

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.^[2][4]

There are no townships within the hundred, the nearest township being that of Lucindale about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) 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

• Lands administrative divisions of South Australia

References

1. Morgan, William (11 April 1878). "Untitled proclamation re Hundreds of Minecrow, Townsend, Conmurra and Menzies" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 852. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
2. . Property Location Browser. Land Services, Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. SA0008976. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2018. Derivation of Name: Hon W Townsend, MP 1857-1882; Other Details: Area 119 square miles
3. South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.
4. Manning, Geoff. "Townsend, Hundred of" (PDF). Manning Index of South Australian Place Names. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
5. . Property Location Browser. Land Services, Government of South Australia. 4 March 2010. SA0054134. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
6. . Property Location Browser. Land Services, Government of South Australia. 12 May 2011. SA0020608. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 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. . Property Location Browser. Land Services, Government of South Australia. 3 January 2008. SA0052149. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
8. "The District Councils Act 1887 No. 419". Flinders University. p. 90. Retrieved 27 March 2015.