Paskeville, South Australia

Paskeville is a town on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. It is located approximately 20 km east of Kadina on the Copper Coast Highway towards Adelaide. At the 2006 census, Paskeville had a population of 473. The town's district is administratively divided between the Copper Coast Council and the District Council of Barunga West.HistoryPaskeville is within the traditional lands of the indigenous Narungga people. The first European explorers to traverse Northern Yorke Peninsula were John Hill and Thomas Burr, on horseback. On 28 April 1840 they camped overnight near present Paskeville and later reported they had discovered extensive fertile land there. The Paskeville district was soon occupied by sheep graziers, who held occupation licences until closer settlement came two decades later. The Hundred of Kulpara was proclaimed on 12 June 1862. Surveys soon followed, including the surveyed township of Kulpara. Pioneer farmers cleared the land for cropping, but there was no town at Paskeville until 1878, when a station was established on the new Port Wakefield to Kadina railway. Up until that time the name Green's Plains had applied to this district. The surveyed town which surrounded this station was on 4 March 1880 named after General Edward Hanson Paske, brother-in-law of the incumbent Governor, Sir William Jervois.