Oxley, Queensland

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Oxley
Brisbane, Queensland

Jacaranda tree in Oxley
Population: 6,376 (2006 census)
Postcode: 4075
Location: 15 km (9 mi) from Brisbane GPO
LGA: Brisbane City Council
Federal Division: Division of Oxley
Suburbs around Oxley:
Seventeen Mile Rocks Fig Tree Pocket Corinda
Darra Oxley Rocklea
Durack Willawong Archerfield


Oxley is a south-western suburb of Brisbane named after the early Australian explorer John Oxley. The suburb supports a mix of residential and industrial land use as well as a small number of shops in two commercial districts. The suburb is bounded to the north by the Brisbane River and Oxley Creek flows along the eastern edge.

The Ipswich Motorway traverses Oxley and the train from Brisbane to Ipswich has an station at Oxley, and is connected to a variety of suburbs via bus services. Oxley Road connects the Ipswich Motorway to the suburb of Indooroopilly.

The Western Gateway Recycled Water Scheme is currently being built across the mid parts of the suburb.

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[edit] Attractions

Oxley has a golf course and golf driving range, a lawn bowls club, the state's police academy, a mosque and numerous churches. There are also numerous parks, larger blocks of residential plots, and a few landscaping material suppliers in the western parts of Oxley.

The old Austral Bricks quarry site in Douglas Street, which contains clay pits and small dams, is currently being filled in. This filling could take until mid 2008. The clean-fill is surplus dirt from the construction of a highway to Springfield. Once completed the site will be turned into an industrial area containing a number of fireworks factories to compensate the "Good Times" firework company who lost their factories in mid 1998.[citation needed]

[edit] History

The suburb was originally a stop-over point on the Cobb & Co coach route west to the Darling Downs.

The quarry was originally owned by Britain Bricks. For many years the site was a brickworks, sourcing clay directly from adjacent pits. After production stopped, the kiln stack remained intact. During the mid 1990's however, the tall structure was removed as it was attracting constant lighting strikes during storms.

[edit] Further reading

  • The History of the Oxley Meat Factory - Foggitt Jones Ltd, J.C. Hutton Pty Ltd, Tancred Bros 1903-1992 by Lona (Price) Grantham, May 1998.

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