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Pages in category "Suburbs of Ipswich, Queensland" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Queensland Rail Citytrain network offers regular services to and from Ipswich railway station to Brisbane, Brisbane Airport, the eastern suburbs, and western suburbs (as far as Rosewood). Westside Buslines is the prominent bus company in Ipswich, linking all sides of town to Ipswich CBD; Redbank; Springfield; or Forest Lake (in Brisbane).
Ipswich (/ ˈ ɪ p s w ɪ tʃ / ⓘ) is an urban centre [2] [3] [4] within the City of Ipswich in South East Queensland, Australia.Situated on the Bremer River, it is approximately 40 km (25 mi) west of the Brisbane central business district.
Ipswich Post Office, c. 1890 Ipswich in flood, 1893. Ipswich is the second-oldest local government area in Queensland, after Brisbane. On 16 November 1859, after the enactment of the Municipalities Act of 1858 in New South Wales, [4] a petition containing 91 signatures was received by the Governor of New South Wales seeking to have Ipswich, which at the time had 3,000 people, granted municipal ...
West Ipswich was earlier known as Little Ipswich when urban settlers inhabited the area in 1840s. [4] The suburb covered various prominent places such as Brisbane Street shopping area, the showground, Denmark Hill, etc., which were transferred to the central suburb of Ipswich in 1991. It still has many old buildings that date back to 1900s. [5]
The suburb is so named because it is immediately north (across the Bremer River) from the centre of Ipswich. [4] Raymond Hill was named after the hill which in turn was named after early land holders J & R Raymond. [3] [6] North Ipswich is the birthplace of Queensland Rail.
It was the first church of the Apostolic Church of Queensland to be established in Ipswich. The church had originally been erected at Waterford, but it was demolished and re-erected in East Ipswich by voluntary labour. [5] Ipswich East State School opened on 28 January 1958 with an initial enrolment of 166 students rising to 235 students that year.
Queensland's first railway linked Grandchester to Ipswich, 1865. South East Queensland was home to around 20,000 Aboriginals prior to British occupation. The local tribes of the area were the Yugarapul of the Central Brisbane area; the Yugambeh people whose traditional lands ranged from South of the Logan River, down to the Tweed River and west to the McPherson Ranges; the Quandamooka people ...