| Grace South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Mallala Motor Sport Park in the north of the hundred | |||||||||||||||
  Grace | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°25′26″S 138°31′37″E / 34.424°S 138.527°E | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 22 May 1856 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 320 km2 (123 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Northern Adelaide Plains | ||||||||||||||
| County | Gawler | ||||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Grace is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia spanning the township of Mallala and the Grace Plains. The hundred was proclaimed in 1856 in the County of Gawler and named by Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell after Grace Montgomery Farrell, wife of James Farrell, Dean of Adelaide.[1][2] The hundred spans a significant portion of the lower Light River, which flows from north east to south west through the area.
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Apart from Mallala, the hundred includes the localities of Redbanks, Fischer, Barabba, Pinkerton Plains (most part) and Grace Plains (most part). The localities of Reeves Plains, Korunye and Lower Light cross over the southern border of the hundred.
- ^ "Placename Details: Hundred of Grace". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. SA0027280. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
Derivation of Name: Grace Montgomery Farrell; Other Details: Grace Montgomery Farrell was the widow of the Reverend C.B. Howard, the first Colonial Chaplain. Her second husband was James Farrell, Dean of Adelaide. Area 123 square miles.
- ^ Manning, Geoffrey. "Grace" (PDF). Manning Index of South Austrlalian History - Place Names of South Australia. Retrieved 20 November 2017 – via State Library of South Australia.