Adare, Queensland

Adare is a locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia.[1]

Adare
Queensland
Adare
Coordinates27°30′34″S 152°17′46″E
Postcode(s)4343
Area39.2 km2 (15.1 sq mi)
Location
LGA(s)Lockyer Valley Region
State electorate(s)Lockyer
Federal Division(s)Wright
Suburbs around Adare:
Vinegar Hill Vinegar Hill Spring Creek
Ringwood Adare Lake Clarendon
Gatton Gatton Gatton

History

The locality is named after one of the Lockyer Valley's largest cattle properties of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had its homestead approximately seven kilometres north of Gatton on Adare Road. Its original homestead was moved from a site on the edge of Lake Clarendon in 1896 by William Drayton Armstrong, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and the Speaker from 1911 to 1915.[2]

Clarendon Provisional School opened on circa 1882. In 1903 it was renamed Springdale Provisional School. It became Springdale State School on 1 January 1909, but closed later in 1909. Its precise location is not known but it was in the vicinity of the intersection of (present day) Adare, Lake Clarendon and Spring Creek.[3]

Geography

The Warrego Highway forms most of the locality's southern boundary. The Gatton-Esk Road forms most of its eastern boundary. Lockyer Creek forms the south-eastern boundary.[4]

Adare is predominantly freeland farming land, a mix of crops and grazing; the land ranges from 100-150 metres above sea level. In the northern tip of the locality is an unnamed peak of 250 metres which is a small part of the Lockyer National Park which is predominantly located in the adjacent locality of Vinegar Hill. Redbank Creek rises in Vinegar Hill and flows from the north to the south-east through Adare entering Lockyer Creek immediately before Jordan Weir.[4]

Notable residents

References
  1. "Adare - locality (entry 44942)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  2. "LATER HOME FOR LORD HUNTINGFIELD". Sunday Mail (567). Queensland, Australia. 8 April 1934. p. 1. Retrieved 5 December 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
  4. "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
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