Dawlish is a former government town whose site is located in the locality of Erskine north of Peterborough, South Australia.
The area is arid and although a town was laid out,Frazer S. Crawford, Dawlish : Hundred of Erskine, (Adelaide, 1882). on 8 June 1882 but it never developed. "In 1964, as there was no demand for allotments, the few that had been sold were acquired compulsorily by the Crown and reverted back [sic] to broad acres."
The name comes from Devon, England, where in the Domesday Book the Town of Dawlish was recorded as Doelis or ‘hallowed place’
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