Clarendon, Queensland
Clarendon is a rural locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. The origin of the suburb name is from a railway station which was named Clarendon after a nearby lake of the same name.[1]
| Clarendon Somerset Region, Queensland | |||||||||||||||
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| Postcode(s) | 4311 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Somerset Region | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | |||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Dickson | ||||||||||||||
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History
Clarendon Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 (a receiving office had been open from 1873 under the names of Tarampa, Watson's and Clarendon) and closed in 1951.[2]
Lake Clarendon State School opened in June 1902 and caters for students from Prep to Year six.[3][4]
Heritage listings
Clarendon has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
References
- "Clarendon (entry 44851)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- "Opening and closing dates of Queensland Schools". Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- "Lake Clarendon SS". Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- "Lockyer Creek Railway Bridge (Clarendon) (entry 600495)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
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