Hundred of Barossa
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Barossa | |||||||||||||
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 Barossa Reservoir, Williamstown, at the hundred's centre | |||||||||||||
  Barossa | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 34°37′43″S 138°52′46″E / 34.62865°S 138.879373°E[1] | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Barossa Light and Lower North[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 29 October 1846[2] | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 255 km2 (98.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| County | Adelaide[1] | ||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Barossa is a cadastral unit of hundred in South Australia in the northern Adelaide Hills.[3] It lies west of the Barossa Range at the south end of the Barossa Valley and is bounded on the north and south by the North Para and South Para rivers, respectively. It is the most northern of the eleven hundreds of the County of Adelaide and was named in 1846 by Governor Frederick Robe after the Barossa Range.
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The principal towns within the hundred are Williamstown, Lyndoch, and Gawler East at the western edge. Other localities include Kalbeeba, Concordia, Rosedale, Sandy Creek, Cockatoo Valley, Barossa Goldfields, Pewsey Vale, Altona and Rowland Flat.