Bugle Ranges, South Australia

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{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Bugle Ranges

| state = sa

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| postcode = 5251

| elevation = 354

| elevation_footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |id=SA0010500 |title=Placename Details: Bugle Ranges Railway Station |date=1 August 2007 |work=Property Location Browser |publisher=Land Services, Government of South Australia |access-date=19 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |archivedate=12 October 2016 }}

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| lga = District Council of Mount Barker

| stategov = Electoral district of Heysen

| fedgov = Division of Mayo

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| near-n = Mount Barker

| near-ne = Wistow

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| near-se = Highland Valley

| near-s = Gemmells

| near-sw = Macclesfield

| near-w = Flaxley

| near-nw = Echunga

| coordinates = {{coord|35.1381|S|138.8756|E|display=inline,title}}

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Bugle Ranges is a locality on the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. It lies between Mount Barker and Strathalbyn, both by road and on the Victor Harbor railway line. Little remains of the village.

The Bugle Inn was a licensed establishment. The licence was first granted to Frederick Rumble in 1852,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38457483 |title=BENCH OF MAGISTRATES. |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=XVI |issue=1705 |location=South Australia |date=12 March 1852 |accessdate=18 March 2017 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} then Walton in 1853.{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/207120533 |title=BUGLE PLOUGHING MATCH. |newspaper=Adelaide Times |location=South Australia |date=6 September 1853 |accessdate=2 July 2013 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/74320453 |title=Notes About Bugle Ranges. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=South Australia |date=15 October 1936 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} In 1856 the licence was transferred to first, Robert Sleep.,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49753123 |title=MACCLESFIELD. |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=XX |issue=2952 |location=South Australia |date=19 March 1856 |accessdate=18 March 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} then to William Kimber.{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49761990 |title=MACCLESFIELD (District Council). |newspaper=Adelaide Times|location=South Australia |date=12 September 1856 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49761990 |title=MACCLESFIELD (District Council). |newspaper=South Australian Register|location=South Australia |date=13 September 1856 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49761990 |title=MACCLESFIELD (District Council). |newspaper=Adelaide Observer|location=South Australia |date=13 September 1856 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} The Inn appears to have only operated for a few years{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50179409 |title=WELLINGTON. |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=13 June 1862 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} and was closed, remaining in use only as a landmark.{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/74320453 |title=Notes About Bugle Ranges. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=South Australia |date=15 October 1936 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} Robert Sleep remained in the area until his death in 1898.{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29408761 |title=THE COUNTRY. |newspaper=The Advertiser|location=South Australia |date=10 June 1898 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}

An annual Bugle Ranges ploughing match, held each year in September, was reported in the papers between 1853 and 1857 inclusive.{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48548164 |title=BUGLE RANGES PLOUGHING MATCH. |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=3 September 1853 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49203909 |title=BUGLE RANGES PLOUGHING MATCH. |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=20 September 1854 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49300966 |title=BUGLE RANGES PLOUGHING MATCH. |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=1 September 1855 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49755777 |title=BUGLE RANGES PLOUGHING MATCH. |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=22 September 1856 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49210501 |title=BUGLE RANGES PLOUGHING MATCH. |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=12 September 1857 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} During this time period, newspapers reported ploughing matches in many Adelaide Plains, Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu Peninsula centres.{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/158120398 |title=PLOUGHING MATCHES. |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |location=South Australia |date=24 July 1858 |accessdate=2 July 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}