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Tiddy Widdy Beach is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula immediately adjoining Gulf St Vincent about 84 kilometres (52 miles) northwest of the Adelaide city centre and about 5 km (3 mi) northeast of the centre of Ardrossan.
Northward of Ardrossan are coastal springs, named Tiddy Widdy or Tittiwitti by the Narungga, being a scarce natural source of fresh water in this region. In 1859 partners Parker Bowman (1831–1911) and Edmund Parnell (c.1834–87) took over the Parara leases. After these expired in 1865 the government moved toward establishing closer ...
This is a list of town and locality names in South Australia outside the metropolitan postal area of Adelaide.. For a list of suburbs in metropolitan areas of Adelaide, see lists inside following individual city council articles: City of Adelaide, City of Burnside, City of Campbelltown, City of Charles Sturt, Town of Gawler, City of Holdfast Bay, City of Marion, City of Mitcham, City of ...
It is surrounded by beaches and is the gateway to the Dhilba Guuranda–Innes National Park.The close proximity of the beach and cliffs have popularized Marion Bay as a fishing destination, with Brown Beach in the nearby Innes National Park being particularly famous among recreational fisherman as a picturesque fishing destination.
The town was laid out by Adelaide solicitor L.M. Cullen in 1877, originally known as Surveyor's Point. In its early days it was a port exporting wheat, barley, wool and mallee stumps (firewood). From the first settlement in 1852 until 1877, coastal trading ketches would beach at high tide, and unload directly to farm wagons at low tide.
Brentwood is a locality on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. [3] The town is located in the Yorke Peninsula Council local government area, 212 kilometres (132 mi) west of the state capital, Adelaide by road (103 kilometres (64 mi) as the crow flies).
The township, which was proclaimed on 3 August 1882, [3] is near the northern boundary of the Hundred of Cunningham. [1]It was named by Sir William Jervois, Governor of South Australia 1877–83, after his daughter in law, Florence Annie Price, who married John Jervois, his eldest son.
Hardwicke Bay is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the west coast of Yorke Peninsula overlooking the bay also named Hardwicke Bay about 104 kilometres (65 miles) west of the Adelaide city centre and about 9 kilometres (5.6 miles) north of the town of Warooka. [3] [4]