Hansborough South Australia |
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Ruins located at Hansborough
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Coordinates | 34°15′04″S 139°01′30″E / 34.251°S 139.025°ECoordinates: 34°15′04″S 139°01′30″E / 34.251°S 139.025°E | ||||||||||||||
Established | 1865 | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5374 | ||||||||||||||
Elevation | 333 m (1,093 ft) | ||||||||||||||
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LGA(s) | Regional Council of Goyder | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Stuart | ||||||||||||||
Federal Division(s) | Wakefield | ||||||||||||||
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Hansborough is a locality along the former Morgan railway line adjacent to the Thiele Highway, in South Australia's Mid North region. It is situated 9 kilometres south-west of Eudunda and 18 kilometres north-east of Kapunda. The Light River runs through the locality.
The town was originally surveyed in July 1865 and is named after early pastoralist and overlander Frederick Hansborough Dutton (1812-1890), who founded Anlaby Station, near Kapunda. Today it is virtually a ghost town, with a number of ruins at the site.
The Hundred of Neales School, later Freshwater Creek School, opened in 1927 in a former manager's residence on the Kingscourt property and closed in 1940.