Oakbank, South Australia
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Oakbank
Population: 449
Established: 1840
Postcode: 5243
LGA: Adelaide Hills Council

Oakbank is a town in the Adelaide Hills, east of Adelaide in South Australia. It is in the Adelaide Hills Council area.

Oakbank is well known for the Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival1 that is run by the Oakbank Racing Club, founded in 1875.

Oakbank has a single operating hotel which is a centre at the end of the annual racing carnival each Easter. The Historic Kelsey cottage, circa. 1914, has now been converted into a restaurant which is frequented by tourists and locals alike for its scones. The town also has a pizza bar and farm supplies store.

References

  1. ^ The Oakbank Race Trains Callaghan, W.H. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, August, 1995 pp211-221

Coordinates: 35°00′S 138°46′E / -35, 138.767

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