| Cockaleechie South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Cockaleechie | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°12′34″S 135°50′34″E / 34.209562°S 135.842788°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 88 (2016)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5631 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 115 m (377 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | District Council of Tumby Bay | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Eyre Western[1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Flinders[1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Flinders | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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Cockaleechie is a locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.[1]
It was served by a siding on the Eyre Peninsula Railway, but as it has no bulk silos, has not been used for some time. The town was named for the railway station, which in turn was named for the Cockaleechie Run pastoral lease held by James Anderson since 1860. Anderson was Scottish, and the run was probably named as a variant of cockaleekie, a Scottish soup of cock boiled with leeks.[3] The siding opened in December 1913.[4]
Famous Australian former tennis player John Fitzgerald was born and schooled in the nearby town of Cummins but was raised in Cockaleechie which is where he gets his nickname: the Cockaleechie Kid.
- ^ a b c d "Search results for 'Cockaleechie, LOCB' with the following datasets being selected – 'Suburbs and Localities', "Government Towns', 'Counties', 'Local Government Areas', 'SA Government Regions', 'Gazetteer' and 'Roads'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "2016 Census QuickStats: Cockaleechie". Census. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "Placename Details: Cockaleechie". Property Location Browser Report. 26 October 2009. SA0014589. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ^ "FATHER TO SON". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. LXXVIII, no. 20, 939. South Australia. 20 December 1913. p. 18. Retrieved 2 July 2017 – via National Library of Australia.