Bridgewater, South Australia
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| Bridgewater South Australia |
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 Bridgewater
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| Population: | 3,470 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 5155 | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | Adelaide Hills Council | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Heysen | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Mayo | ||||||||||||
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Bridgewater is a town in the Adelaide Hills, southeast of Adelaide in South Australia.
It is the former end of the Adelaide-Bridgewater railway line; this route was closed in 1987. The railway was converted to standard gauge in 1995 and continues to be the main line from Adelaide to Melbourne, but no trains stop at the now demolished Bridgewater railway station.
Cox Creek (named after the explorer Robert Cock, who led an expedition through this area in December 1837),[2][3] runs through Bridgewater, and the town was originally settled as Cox Creek. It was renamed Bridgewater when the flour mill was built by John Dunn, who named it after Bridgwater in Somerset, England.
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Bridgewater (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC41171&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 2007-10-25.
- ^ Journal of an excursion from Adelaide to the River Murray and Lake Alexandrina, December 1837, BY Robert Cock, WM. Finlayson, A. Wyatt, G. Barton article, South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, Adelaide, Saturday Jan 20 1838
- ^ Recollections of Old Colonists” (RGSA vol 6), “Reminiscences by Pastor Finlayson” pp 48-49
Coordinates: 35°00′S 138°46′E / 35°S 138.767°E
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