Magdala South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 34°26′00″S 138°42′32″E / 34.433310°S 138.708750°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 79 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 1890s | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5400 | ||||||||||||||
Location | 20 km (12 mi) N of Gawler | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Light Regional Council | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Light | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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Magdala (sometimes erroneously spelled Magdalla) is a former settlement and current locality about 20 km north of Gawler in South Australia. There was formerly a church and Lutheran school, but all that remains is the cemetery.[2] Magdala is on the road from Templers to Hamley Bridge. It was established in the 1890s and had a school from 1903 to 1940.[2] The Roseworthy-Peterborough railway line passes through the settlement.
Boundaries established in May 1995. Corrigendum published in April 2009 correcting the spelling of Magdalla as gazetted in 1995 to Magdala. Magdala was a Lutheran settlement established in the late 1890s and consisted of a school (1903-1940), a cemetery and the meeting rooms for the Mudla Wirra North Council. No remnants of the original settlement remain except for gravestones of the cemetery located on CT 5783/875. A memorial plaque has been erected on the site of the original school.