Hundred of Alma
The Hundred of Alma is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia spanning the township of Alma and the Alma Plains. The hundred was proclaimed in 1856 in the County of Gawler and named by Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell for the River Alma on the Crimean Peninsula, the location of the Battle of the Alma, the first Allied victory in the Crimean War. The hundred is bounded on the north by the Wakefield River and on the south by the Light River The Hundred of Alma includes all of the localities of Alma, Salter Springs, Woolshed Flat and parts of the localities of Hamley Bridge, Stockyard Creek, Undalya, Rhynie, Riverton, Giles Corner, Stockport. The largest town is now Hamley Bridge near the southern boundary. Local government The District Council of Rhynie was the first local government body established within the hundred. It was proclaimed in October 1865 and included approximately the northern half of the hundred. Its establishment was closely followed by that of the District Council of Stockport just a month later. Stockport council covered approximately the southern half of the hundred as well as small parts of the Hundred of Gilbert