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Auburn is a small town in the southern edge of the Clare Valley, in the Mid North of South Australia.

It lies in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges just east of the Skilly Hills. Auburn is bisected by the Wakefield River as it makes its way to the sea at Port Wakefield.

European settlement took place in the late 1840s, and is the birthplace of Australian poet, C. J. Dennis. The town features a significant number of historic buildings, and was a transport hub from the beginning. In the 1850s it was on the Gulf Road, used by bullock teamsters carting copper ore from Burra, through Mintaro, to Hoyles Plains and on to Port Wakefield.

• Population: 387 1
• Postcode: 5451
• Location: 117 km north of Adelaide
• Main Roads: Horrocks Hwy (B82) and Saddleworth Rd (B84)
• Radio Stations: FM: ABC Classic (103.9 MHz) ABC RN (106.7 MHz), Flow FM (99.5 MHz), Magic 105.9 (105.9 MHz) and Triple J (105.5 MHz). AM: 5AU (1242 kHz), 5CS (1044 kHz), ABC Adelaide (891 kHz), ABC News on Radio (972 kHz), ABC North and West SA (639 kHz)

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	Auburn Town Centre: Corner of Horrocks Hwy (B82) and King St in Auburn, October 2012. Image © Michael Greenslade

1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016 Census QuickStats

Last updated: 26 Nov 2019 19:34

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