Uraidla, South Australia
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Uraidla ( ) is a small town in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Australia, with a population of 440 (1996 census). Once the home of the Peramangk Aboriginal people, European settlement commenced in the mid nineteenth century, a primary school opened in 1871 and the town formally established in the 1880s.
The name Uraidla is derived from local Aboriginal origins. The neighbouring Kaurna people (from the Adelaide plains) had a tale about an ancestral giant who fell in battle and whose body formed part of the Mount Lofty Ranges, with his ears forming Mount Lofty and Mount Bonython. The name Yurrēidla may derive from the Kaurna words yurre (ear) and the suffix denotaing location, -illa (Teichelmann & Schurmann 1840). This was later corrupted to Uraidla and adopted as the name of the town.
A major industry in the Uraidla area is apple and cherry orchards, along with vineyards.
Uraidla is in the Adelaide Hills Council local government area.
[edit] External links
- Uraidla and Summertown Horticultural Show
- Uraidla Primary School
- Adelaide Hills Council
- Australian Aboriginal Tribal Database
[edit] References
Teichelmann, C. G.; C. W. Schürmann [1840] (1982). Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary and phraseology of the Aboriginal language of South Australia spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide. Tjintu Books. ISBN 0-9593616-0-X.
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Major Townships: Birdwood | Echunga | Gumeracha | Hahndorf | Littlehampton | Lobethal | Macclesfield | Meadows | Mount Barker | Nairne | Oakbank | Stirling | Woodside
Attractions: Mount Lofty Botanic Garden | SteamRanger | Heysen Trail
See Also: List of towns in the Adelaide Hills | Wine regions of South Australia | Adelaide
