Templers, South Australia

Templers
South Australia
A former church at Templers
Templers is located in South Australia
Templers
Templers
Coordinates34°28′S 138°44′E / 34.467°S 138.733°E / -34.467; 138.733
Population138 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)5371
Elevation149 m (489 ft)
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACDT (UTC+10:30)
LGA(s)Light Regional Council
State electorate(s)Light
Federal division(s)
Localities around Templers:
Magdala Morn Hill
Wasleys Templers Freeling
Roseworthy

Templers (postcode 5371) is a small town on the Horrocks Highway north of Gawler, South Australia. The town was named after William Templer who, with his wife Martha, was the licensee of the North Star hotel in the area from 1846 to 1878.

The Templers Primary School opened in 1873, but has since closed.[3]

The Mount Bethel Wesleyan Jubilee chapel was built in 1863 (completed 1864) by a people who had been meeting regularly in homes and sheds for worship since the early 1850s. It was initially part of the Gawler circuit. From 1870 it was part of a circuit consisting of Templers, Wasleys, Freeling and Sheaoak Log, with Stockport added from 1880.[4]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Templers (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Federal electoral division of Grey, boundary gazetted 20 July 2018". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  3. ^ "School = Templers – Teachers listed by year". University of South Australia. 2003. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Reminiscences of Templers Methodist Church". The Bunyip. Gawler, SA. 1 December 1939. p. 1. Retrieved 14 December 2015 – via National Library of Australia.