| Hamley Bridge South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Light St in Hamley Bridge | |||||||||||||||
  Hamley Bridge | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°21′0″S 138°41′0″E / 34.35000°S 138.68333°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 615 (UCL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1860s | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5401 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 78 km (48 mi) N of Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
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| State electorate(s) | Goyder, Light | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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Hamley Bridge is a community in South Australia located at the junction of the Gilbert and Light rivers, as well as the site of a former railway junction.
Named by the government of the day, in honour of the Acting Governor of South Australia Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Gilbert Hamley, whose wife, Lady Edith Hamley laid the foundation stone of the River Light Railway Bridge on 25 July 1868. This bridge carries the Peterborough railway line over the Light River.
Other settlements in the area had commenced in the early 1860s, and it was not until 1868 that the junction of the two rivers came under notice as a possible site for a township.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Hamley Bridge (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021.
