Hoyleton, South Australia
- Hoyleton, South Australia
Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Hoyleton
state = sa
caption = Original goods shed, built in the 1870s
lga = Wakefield Regional Council
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region = Mid North
mayor = James Maitland
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stategov = Goyder
fedgov = Wakefield
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Hoyleton (coord|34|01|S|138|33|E|region:AU-SA_type:city) is a former railway town in South Australia, west of the Clare Valley, halfway between Leasingham and Halbury. The railway ran from Balaklava to Blyth and further on into the Mid North of the state ["The Centenary of the Port Wakefield and Hoyleton Railway" Wilson, John Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, January, 1970 pp17-23] . Due to various reasons, this particular line had become obsolete and the tracks were dismantled in the late 1980s. The original historic stone railway shed remains standing alongside the grain silos which are still in use, but now serviced by road.
Sir Walter Watson Hughes, one of the founders of the University of Adelaide, originally owned a pastoral lease at Hoyleton in the 1850s. He later went on to own vast copper mining interests at Wallaroo, on the Yorke Peninsula [citebook|last=Cockburn |first=Rodney |year=1999 |title=South Australia - What's in a Name?| publisher=Axiom Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9592519-1-X] .
Government
Hoyleton is in the Wakefield Regional Council local government area.
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