Warwick Tourism, QLD Australia
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- State: QLD
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- Famous for/as: Heritage
- Population: 12,562 (2006 census)
- Altitude: 477 m
- Language: English
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- Pincode: 4370
- STDCode: 07
Warwick Info
49 Albion Street
Warwick
Queensland 4370 Australia
Warwick, Australia Overview
Warwick, a commanding regional town of over 12,000 people, is on the western side of the Great Dividing Range and near the headwaters of the Condamine River. It has long been characterised by elegant churches and some grand private schools, giving the centre a certain monumentalism. Situated in the southern Darling Downs, it is 140 km south-west of Brisbane.The first European to sight the Darling Downs was Allan Cunningham, botanist and explorer, in 1827. Acting on Cunningham's discovery, a northern New South Wales pastoralist Patrick Leslie, set off in that direction in 1840 to find fresh grazing lands. Leslie chose a site west of Warwick for his Canning Downs station. Joined by his two brothers, the Leslies became the first permanent European settlers, and others soon followed. Upon the settlement of the district the New South Wales government commissioned Leslie to choose a town site and Lands Commissioner, Christopher Rolleston, named the proposed town site Canningtown. It has been suggested that Leslie and other settlers may have supported the name Warwick, after the fifteenth century figure, Warwick the Kingmaker, in Edward Bulwer Lytton's The Last of the Barons (1843). The name was gazetted in May 1847. A town was laid out by the colonial surveyor James Burnett in 1849 and allotment sales began the next year.
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Warwick, Australia History
The Warwick Green Belt, on the banks of the Condamine river features a Sculpture of Tiddalik the mythical frog that drank all of the fresh water in a renowned Aboriginal Dreamtime story.Patrick Leslie and his two brothers originally settled in the area as squatters, naming their run Canning Downs. In 1847 the NSW government asked Leslie to select a site on his station for a township, which was to be called 'Cannington,' although the name 'Warwick' was eventually settled on. Land sales were held in 1850, and the first allotment was bought by Leslie. The telegraph to Brisbane was operating by 1861. The 1870s were boom years for this new town. In 1871 the railway reached Warwick, a brewery was built in 1873, then a cooperative flour mill and brickworks were completed during 1874.An event officially known as the Warwick Incident occurred on the 29 November 1917, which would lead to the formation of the Australian Commonwealth Police with the first commissioner for Commonwealth Police appointed eight days later. As Prime Minister William Morris Hughes was addressing a crowd at the Warwick railway station, a man in the crowd threw an egg dislodging the Prime Minister's hat. Hughes ordered his arrest but the Queensland State Police allegedly refused to carry out the order.