Bridgewater, South Australia
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| Population | 3,470 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5155 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Adelaide Hills Council | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Heysen | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Mayo | ||||||||||||||
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Bridgewater is a town in the Adelaide Hills, south-east 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. An early use of the name "Bridgewater" was in James Addison's (ca.1819 – 26 April 1870) "Bridgewater Hotel",[4][5] and the town was renamed Bridgewater when the adjacent flour mill was built by John Dunn and the nearby land subdivided in 1857.[6]
Street names
The streets of one part of Bridgewater appear to have been named for Orient Line steam ships: SS Omrah, SS Otway, SS Orsova, SS Orontes (1902–1926), SS Ophir, SS Otranto (1909–1918), SS Orvieto (1909–1931), and SS Orotava (1889–1921).[7]
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- ↑ 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 20 Jan 1838
- ↑ "Recollections of Old Colonists" (RGSA vol 6), "Reminiscences by Pastor Finlayson" pp 48-49
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