This was published 15 years ago
Aldgate - Places to See
Interesting small village in the Adelaide Hills
Aldgate Pump Hotel
The main attractions are the Aldgate Pump Hotel which has a good reputation with an interesting restaurant and a fashionably wide range of beverages. It has been modernised and changed many times over the years. However it still has considerable charm.
The Pump and the Corner Store
Over the road from the hotel is the pump (not the original one - and not in the original location) and the delightful 'General Store' - now a crafts shop - which dates from the early 1880s when building blocks were offered for sale in Aldgate. It has changed hands and functions many times. At various points it has been a general store, a butcher's shop and, in the 1890s, the Hills Cash Store.
Stangate House
In 1975 Stangate House was bequeathed to the National Trust of South Australia. It is an attractive house dating to 1940 but the attraction is the garden with its huge oak tree (some suggest it dates from 1864 and was originally planted by Richard Hawkins) and its displays of camellias, hydrangeas and rhododendrons.
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