Uraidla, South Australia

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Uraidla
state = South Australia


caption = Uraidla Township
lga = Adelaide Hills Council
postcode = 5142
est = 1880s
pop = 442 (2001 census)
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Heysen
fedgov = Mayo
dist1 = 17
dir1 =
location1= Adelaide
near-nw = Basket Range
near-n = Basket Range
near-ne = Basket Range
near-w = Summertown
near-e = Basket Range
near-sw = Piccadilly
near-s = Carey Gully
near-se = Carey Gully

Uraidla is a small town in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Australia.

History

Once the home of the Peramangk Aboriginal people, European settlement commenced in the mid nineteenth century, a primary school opened in 1871 and the town formally established in the 1880s.

Aboriginal Origins

The name Uraidla is derived from local Aboriginal origins. The neighbouring Kaurna people (from the Adelaide plains) had a tale about an ancestral giant who fell in battle and whose body formed part of the Mount Lofty Ranges, with his ears forming Mount Lofty and Mount Bonython. The name "Yurrēidla" may derive from the Kaurna words "yurre" (ear) and the suffix denotaing location, "-illa" (Teichelmann & Schurmann 1840 [Teichelmann, C. G.; C. W. Schürmann [1840] (1982). Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary and phraseology of the Aboriginal language of South Australia spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide. Tjintu Books. ISBN 0-9593616-0-X.] ). This was later corrupted to Uraidla and adopted as the name of the town.

Industries

Uraidla and the surrounding area is a well-known agricultural district with apple and cherry orchards, along with vineyards producing many local wine vintages.

References

External links

* [http://www.uraidlashow.com/ Uraidla and Summertown Horticultural Show]
* [http://www.uraidlar7.sa.edu.au/ Uraidla Primary School]
* [http://www.ahc.sa.gov.au/ Adelaide Hills Council]
* [http://www.ausanthrop.net/resources/ausanthrop_db/ Australian Aboriginal Tribal Database]