Cockaleechie, South Australia

Cockaleechie is a locality on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.^[1]

Cockaleechie South Australia
Cockaleechie
Coordinates	34°12′34″S 135°50′34″E[1]
Population	88 (2016)[2]
Postcode(s)	5631
Elevation	115 m (377 ft)
LGA(s)	District Council of Tumby Bay
Region	Eyre Western[1]
County	Flinders[1]
State electorate(s)	Flinders
Federal division(s)	Grey
Localities around Cockaleechie: Yeelanna Brooker Cummins Cockaleechie Ungarra Yallunda Flat

It was served by a siding on the Eyre Peninsula Railway, but as it has no bulk silos, has not been used for some time. The town was named for the railway station, which in turn was named for the Cockaleechie Run pastoral lease held by James Anderson since 1860. Anderson was Scottish, and the run was probably named as a variant of cockaleekie, a Scottish soup of cock boiled with leeks.^[3] The siding opened in December 1913.^[4]

Famous Australian former tennis player John Fitzgerald was born and schooled in the nearby town of Cummins but was raised in Cockaleechie which is where he gets his nickname: the Cockaleechie Kid.