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Districts:


  • District A: north of Bay Road (now Anzac Highway) to Sturt Creek & thence a straight line towards Mt Lofty excluding Adelaide inc Port Adelaide and west of Mt Lofty.
  • District B: south of Bay Road and Greenhill Rd to 35°10’ and west of Mt Lofty .
  • District C: from 35°10’ [ie mouth Onkaparinga River] to 35°20’ and west of Mt Lofty.
  • District D: Mypolonga and Mount Compass region and west of Mt Lofty.
  • District E: Districts of Encounter Bay and Currency Creek and the Valley of the Inman.
  • District F: Delamere and Cape Jervis region.
Building tallieskeyboard_arrow_down

The tallies for buildings are best estimates as sometimes the text is not precise.

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The crop tallies were recorded in acres and originally fractions rather than decimals were used.

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The survey of land under cultivation in 1840 as reported in the Register newspaper over several issues in mid-1841 is a useful census substitute and an excellent snapshot of crop production over 14,000 acres at the time.

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