Belgian Gardens, Queensland

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Belgian Gardens
Townsville, Queensland

Population

2,251 (?)^{[citation needed]}

4810

Suburbs around Belgian Gardens:
Pallarenda	Rowes Bay
	Belgian Gardens	North Ward
Garbutt	West End	Castle Hill

Belgian Gardens in an inner city suburb, 5 km from the Central Business district in Townsville, Queensland Australia. It is a suburban area and has restricted zoning laws to reduce the amount of corporate buildings and apartments. It is home to the Belgian Gardens State School. It also has the Belgian Gardens Cemetery and is adjacent to Rowes Bay and many kilometres of beach front parkland. Before the advent of World War I, the suburb was named 'German Gardens'. However, during the course of the war the suburb was renamed to 'Belgian Gardens'.^[1] (See Australian place names changed from German names).

Heritage listings

Belgian Gardens has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

13 St James Drive: Bishop's Lodge^[2]

v t e Suburbs of Townsville, North Queensland, Queensland

Urban	Aitkenvale Annandale Belgian Gardens Bohle Castle Hill Cluden Condon Cranbrook Currajong Douglas Garbutt Gulliver Gumlow Heatley Hermit Park Hyde Park Idalia James Cook University Kelso Kirwan Lavarack Army Barracks Mount Louisa Mount St John Mount Stuart Mundingburra Murray Mysterton North Ward Oonoonba Pallarenda Pimlico Railway Estate Rasmussen Rosslea Rowes Bay Shaw South Townsville Thuringowa Central Townsville City Vincent West End Wulguru

Rural	Alice River Alligator Creek Balgal Beach Black River Blue Hills Bluewater Park Bohle Plains Brookhill Calcium Cape Cleveland Cleament Crimea Crystal Creek Cungulla Hervey Range Hidden Valley Julago Lynam Majors Creek Mount Elliot Mutarnee Nome Oak Valley Orpheus Island Palm Island Partington Pinnacles Rangewood Reid River Rollingstone Roseneath Rupertswood Stuart Toomulla Toonpan Woodstock

Northern Beaches	Beach Holm Bluewater Burdell Bushland Beach Deeragun Jensen Mount Low Purono Park Saunders Beach Toolakea Yabulu

Magnetic Island	Arcadia Cockle Bay Horseshoe Bay Magnetic Island Nelly Bay Picnic Bay

References

↑ "Biography of Ruby Mary Mclean". rootsweb.com. October 2006. Retrieved 14 May 2007.
↑ "Bishop's Lodge (entry 15658)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 2013-07-16.

External links

University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Belgian Gardens

Coordinates: 19°15′S 146°48′E / 19.250°S 146.800°E / -19.250; 146.800

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