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Townsville road network is a group of roads that provide access to the urban areas of Townsville in Queensland, Australia, and enable travel between the communities.Most of the roads retain their original road or street names, and are not well known by their official names.
Reid Park Street Circuit, also known as the Townsville Street Circuit, is a semi-permanent street circuit located in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Opened in 2009, the circuit hosts the Townsville 500 Supercars Championship event every year.
Suburbs and settlements of the City of Townsville in Queensland, Australia, listed relative to their historical local government area from prior to 2008 when City of Townsville and City of Thuringowa were separate local government areas, are as follows:
Townsville City is a coastal suburb at the centre of the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census, the suburb of Townsville City had a population of 2,945 people. [1] It is the city's central business district and a major hub for businesses of all sectors in the Northern Australia region. Waterfront in the CBD
Townsville West State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Wilson Street (11] [12] In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 111 students with 13 teachers (8 full-time equivalent) and 11 non-teaching staff (6 full-time equivalent).
Most of the street names come from London streets and suburbs - for example, named after Oxford Street, Bayswater Road and Park Lane. As part of the development of Townsville, sugar plantations were established at Hyde Park in 1866. [4] In 1918, Hyde Park was transferred from the Thuringowa Shire to the City of Townsville by a government decree ...
Usage note: In Australia, "suburbs" are the official postal subdivisions of a city.Inner suburbs are subdivisions within the denser urban areas of the cities and outer suburbs are the postal divisions found in the outer rings of the metropolitan areas, and usually lying within the boundaries of a separate municipality.
There are many well-preserved old buildings in Townsville dating from the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, especially in Flinders Street which is the oldest street. [104] One of the most famous buildings is the Townsville Post Office, built in 1886 with a clock tower which was dismantled in 1942 and reconstructed in 1963/64.