Pewsey Vale, South Australia

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| name = Pewsey Vale

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| pop = 79

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}

|pop_footnotes= {{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC41136 |name=Pewsey Vale |accessdate=30 April 2020 |quick=on}}

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| postcode = 5351

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| lga = Barossa Council

| stategov = Schubert

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| near-n = Krondorf

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| near-e = Flaxman Valley

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| near-s = Mount Crawford

| near-sw = Williamstown

| near-w = Altona, Lyndoch

| near-nw = Rowland Flat

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Pewsey Vale is a locality east of the southern Barossa Valley in the western part of the Eden Valley of South Australia. It was first established as a sheep station pastoral run in the early years of the colony by Joseph Gilbert. Gilbert named his run Pewsey Vale in 1839 after the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, England, where he was born.{{cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |title=Placename Details: Pewsey Vale |id=SA0054760 |date=6 February 2007 |work=Property Location Browser |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=28 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |archive-date=12 October 2016 |url-status=dead }} It was originally to be called Karrawatta, however this name was easily confused with the neighboring Tarrawatta.{{cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |title=Placename Details: Karrawatta |id=SA0015633 |date=6 February 2007 |work=Property Location Browser |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=28 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |archive-date=12 October 2016 |url-status=dead }}

Over the years, Gilbert planted grapevines and made wine, as well as running sheep at Pewsey Vale and other pastoral leases in the colony.Marjorie Findlay, 'Gilbert, Joseph (1800–1881)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gilbert-joseph-3610/text5605, published first in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 28 December 2015. The school and chapel were built by Gilbert in 1861, and the cemetery contains predominantly only Gilbert and his relatives.{{cite web |url=http://www.australiancemeteries.com/sa/barossa/pewseyvalecedata.htm |title=Pewsey Vale Anglican Cemetery |work=Australian Cemeteries |accessdate=28 December 2015}}

The vineyards planted by William Gilbert were removed shortly after World War I. New vineyards were planted in the 1960s in conjunction with the Yalumba wine company.{{cite web |url=http://winetitles.com.au/features/?VIEW=65 |title=The Gilberts of Pewsey Vale: the next generation |publisher=Winetitles Media Pty Ltd (Division of Provincial Press Group) |author=Valmai Hankel |accessdate=28 December 2015}}