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Hundred of Nuriootpa

Nuriootpa
South Australia
FreelingWarMemorial.JPG
War memorial at Freeling on the northern border of the hundred
Nuriootpa is located in South Australia
Nuriootpa
Nuriootpa
Coordinates 34°30′04″S 138°51′54″E / 34.501°S 138.865°E / -34.501; 138.865Coordinates: 34°30′04″S 138°51′54″E / 34.501°S 138.865°E / -34.501; 138.865
Established 30 November 1847
Area 260 km2 (100.5 sq mi)
Region Adelaide Plains
Barossa Valley
County Light
Lands administrative divisions around Nuriootpa:
Mudla Wirra Light Belvidere
Mudla Wirra Nuriootpa Moorooroo
Munno Para Barossa Moorooroo
Barossa

The Hundred of Nuriootpa is a cadastral unit of hundred in the County of Light, South Australia split between in the eastern Adelaide Plains and western Barossa Valley. Named in 1847 for an indigenous term officially thought to mean "bartering place" and traditionally used as neutral ground for trading between various indigenous tribes, it is bounded on the south and east by the North Para River.

The town of Nuriootpa is at the north eastern corner of the hundred. Other towns within the hundred are Freeling, whose the southern and oldest parts straddle the north border of the hundred, and Greenock, also in the hundred's north. The localities of Nain, Kingsford, Shea-Oak Log, Daveyston, Seppeltsfield, Marananga, Stone Well and Gomersal as well as parts of Templers, Roseworthy, Concordia, Rosedale, Lyndoch, Rowland Flat and Tanunda are also within the hundred.


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