Freeling

Freeling is a small town in South Australia, about 60 km north of Adelaide. It neighbours the Barossa Valley wine region. At the 2011 census, Freeling had a population of 1,591.DescriptionFreeling is in the Light Regional Council, the state electoral district of Schubert and the federal Division of Wakefield. Sport in Freeling include Australian rules football, netball, cricket, lawn bowls, basketball, skateboarding and tennis.HistoryThe township of Freeling was surveyed in March 1860 by Robert Stephenson. It was named after Major-General Sir Arthur Henry Freeling, Surveyor-General of South Australia from 1849-61. Freeling was a stopping place on the Gawler to Kapunda railway, which opened in 1860 but is no longer used. The Freeling Hotel was founded in 1863, the Railway Hotel in 1867 and the St Petri Lutheran Church (now a private home) in 1871. By 1866, Freeling’s population numbered approximately 60.