Cox Creek, also Cox's Creek, previously Cock's Creek, is a small stream in the southern Adelaide Hills. Cox's Creek was also the name of the settlement which became Bridgewater, South Australia.
Description
editThe creek arises near Uraidla and flows in a southerly direction through the Piccadilly Valley, and joins the Onkaparinga River south of Bridgewater[1] near the Mylor bridge.
It flows through the Raywood gardens,[2][3] which, along with the large home, are heritage-listed on the SA Heritage Register.[4]
Naming
editRobert Cock emigrated with his family to South Australia on HMS Buffalo, arriving in December 1836. He led a small exploration party from Adelaide to Lake Alexandrina in 1837, on Christmas Day camping at, and with some difficulty crossing, the creek which was named for him.[5]
A settlement was later formed on the creek, some few kilometres from where Cock and party made their crossing, first naming it "Cock's Creek", then "Cox's Creek",[6] finally "Bridgewater" named after James Addison's Bridgewater Hotel and John Dunn's Bridgewater Mill, which was powered by water from a dam on the creek.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Cox Creek, Piccadilly Valley; 2015 Report". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- ^ "Adelaide Hills Mansion 1969". Flickr. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ "Cottage, Bridgewater". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ "Heritage details: Dwelling ('Raywood', previously 'Arbury Park') Garden, Chapel, Driveway and Gates". SA Heritage Places Database Search. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ "A Jewell Casket". The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser. SA. 5 August 1948. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2015 – via Trove.
- ^ "Advertising". South Australian Register. Vol. XIX, no. 2645. South Australia. 16 March 1855. p. 4. Retrieved 28 November 2020 – via Trove. Evidence of Bridgewater Hotel operating while the township was still Cox's Creek
- ^ John Dunn (17 December 1886). "Memories of Eighty Years". The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser. SA. p. 4. Retrieved 28 November 2020 – via Trove.