page_title: Blanchetown
section_title: Industry and amenities
hierarchical_section_title: Blanchetown / Industry and amenities
caption_attribution_description: English: Lock 1 and weir on the River Murray at Blanchetown, South Australia
context_page_description: Blanchetown is a small township in South Australia, on the bank of the Murray River, 130 kilometres northeast of Adelaide. The Blanchetown Bridge is the western-most of the four crossings of the Sturt Highway over the Murray River. During the nineteenth century it was an important transportation centre on the lower Murray. In the early 21st century, Blanchetown has been described as "a strange mixture of historic buildings and temporary shacks built by holidaymakers on the banks of the river". Blanchetown is widely regarded as the entrance to the Riverland district.
context_section_description: Blanchetown is north of Goyder's Line, and so the land around it is unsuitable for farming unless it is irrigated using water drawn from the Murray. Upstream of Blanchetown, land above the cliffs on the west bank is mostly used for sheep grazing, while land on the east bank is irrigated for citrus orchards.
  The locality of Blanchetown includes the Brookfield Conservation Park west of the town and north of the Sturt Highway. It is an example of the mallee near Goyder's Line and a habitat for southern hairy-nosed wombats. The Advent Lutheran Church Blanchetown is actually in Paisley, a few hundred metres north of the eastern end of the bridge.
caption: Lock 1 and weir at Blanchetown
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