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Hoyleton, South Australia

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State electorate(s)
  
Goyder

Local time
  
Thursday 6:36 AM

Hoyleton
  
Auburn

Federal division
  
Division of Wakefield

Hoyleton, South Australia

Population
  
283 (2006 census Census)

Weather
  
17°C, Wind SW at 13 km/h, 69% Humidity

Lga
  
Wakefield Regional Council

Hoyleton (34°01′S 138°33′E) is a former railway town in South Australia, west of the Clare Valley, halfway between Leasingham and Halbury. At the 2006 census, Hoyleton had a population of 283.

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Map of Hoyleton SA 5453, Australia

Hoyleton was the original terminus of the Port Wakefield railway line. This was constructed in 1869 as a horse-drawn tramway to assist farmers on the newly settled Hoyles Plains to get their grain to the port.

The Gladstone railway line ran from Balaklava to Blyth and further on into the Mid North of the state. Due to various reasons, this particular line had become obsolete and the tracks were dismantled in the late 1980s. The original historic stone railway shed remains standing alongside the grain silos which are still in use, but now serviced by road.

Sir Walter Watson Hughes, one of the founders of the University of Adelaide, originally owned a pastoral lease at Hoyleton in the 1850s. He later went on to own vast copper mining interests at Wallaroo, on the Yorke Peninsula.

Government

Hoyleton is in the Wakefield Regional Council local government area, the State Electoral District of Goyder and the Federal Electorate of Wakefield.

References

Hoyleton, South Australia Wikipedia