{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = cadastral | name = Grace | state = sa | image = File:Saloon cars Race 1 start Rd4 2006.JPG | caption = Mallala Motor Sport Park in the north of the hundred | coordinates = {{coord|34.424|S|138.527|E|display=inline,title}} | county = Gawler | region = Northern Adelaide Plains | est = 22 May 1856 | area_total_sq_mi = 123 | near-nw = Balaklava | near-n = Dalkey | near-ne = Alma | near-e = Mudla Wirra | near-se = Mudla Wirra | near-s = Port Gawler | near-sw = Port Gawler | near-w = Dublin }} The '''Hundred of Grace''' is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia spanning the township of Mallala and the Grace Plains. The hundred was proclaimed in 1856 in the County of Gawler and named by Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell after Grace Montgomery Farrell, wife of James Farrell, Dean of Adelaide.<ref name="PLB">{{Cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb |work=Property Location Browser |title=Placename Details: Hundred of Grace |id=SA0027280 |date=29 January 2009 |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=20 November 2017 |quote=Derivation of Name: Grace Montgomery Farrell; Other Details: Grace Montgomery Farrell was the widow of the Reverend C.B. Howard, the first Colonial Chaplain. Her second husband was James Farrell, Dean of Adelaide. Area 123 square miles. |archive-date=7 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207082745/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/digitalpubs/placenamesofsouthaustralia/G.pdf |work=Manning Index of South Austrlalian History - Place Names of South Australia |first=Geoffrey |last=Manning |authorlink=Geoffrey Manning |title=Grace |via=State Library of South Australia |accessdate=20 November 2017 |quote= }}</ref> The hundred spans a significant portion of the lower Light River, which flows from north east to south west through the area.
thumb|300px|left|Plan of the Hundred of Grace, 1897 Apart from Mallala, the hundred includes the localities of Redbanks, Fischer, Barabba, Pinkerton Plains (most part) and Grace Plains (most part). The localities of Reeves Plains, Korunye and Lower Light cross over the southern border of the hundred.
==Local government== The District Council of Mudla Wirra was the first local government body established in the area. It was proclaimed in January 1854 and administered all of the county south of the Light River, including approximately the south eastern third of the Hundred of Grace. Less than three years later, in September 1856, the District Council of Port Gawler was established by secession from Mudla Wirra including the portion within the Hundred of Grace. In 1874, the District Council of Grace was established to administer the remainder of the hundred.
On 1 May 1935, the entire hundred came to be administered by a single local government body when Grace and Port Gawler councils were amalgamated with the District Council of Dublin (to the west) to create the new District Council of Light, subsequently renamed District Council of Mallala in 1937, and then Adelaide Plains Council in 2016.
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