Hyde Park, Queensland

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Hyde Park is a suburb of Townsville, Australia. It is located north of Mysterton, west of Hermit Park, east of Garbutt, and south of West End, and its postcode is 4812.

As part of the development of Townsville, sugar plantations were established at Hyde Park in 1866. In 1918, Hyde Park was transferred from the Thuringowa Shire to the City of Townsville by a ballot.

Most of the street names (and the suburb's name itself) come from London streets and suburbs - for example, Oxford Street, Bayswater Road and Park Lane. Hyde Park is one of the less well known Townsville suburbs, and so has escaped most of the renovation of the old houses that has taken place in Townsville in recent years.

Hyde Park contains two shopping centres, Castletown Shoppingworld and the Hyde Park Centre located on Woolcock Street. It has two schools, Hermit Park State School (though it is actually located in Hyde Park) and St. Margaret Mary's College, in Townsville.

Hyde Park is also home to the Wesley Park Haven Hospital, formerly known as the Park Haven Private Hospital, established in 1937. In January 1999 the hospital was acquired by The Wesley Hospital, Brisbane on behalf of the Uniting Church in Queensland. Located in Oxford Street, it now operates independently of The Wesley, Brisbane but as part of Uniting HealthCare. The hospital has 80 beds including 14 day-surgery beds.