Adare is a rural

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in the

Lockyer Valley Region The Lockyer Valley Region is a local government area in the West Moreton region of South East Queensland, Australia, between the cities of Ipswich and Toowoomba. It was created in 2008 from a merger of the Shire of Gatton and the Shire of Lai ...

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, Australia. In the , Adare had a population of 873 people.

Geography

The

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forms most of the locality's southern boundary. The Gatton-Esk Road forms most of its eastern boundary.

Lockyer Creek The Lockyer Creek is a creek located in South East Queensland, Australia. A tributary of the Brisbane River, the creek is a major drainage system in the Lockyer Valley. Rising on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, the creek fl ...

forms the south-eastern boundary. Adare is predominantly freeland farming land, a mix of crops and grazing; the land ranges from 100-150 metres above sea level. In the northern tip of the locality is an unnamed peak of 250 metres which is a small part of the

Lockyer National Park Lockyer National Park is a national park in north of the Lockyer Valley Region in South East Queensland, Australia. The landscape is dominated by the foothills of the Great Dividing Range and features sandstone gorges and eucalypt forest. There ...

which is predominantly located in the adjacent locality of

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. Redbank Creek rises in Vinegar Hill and flows from the north to the south-east through Adare entering Lockyer Creek immediately before Jordan Weir. Holcomb is a neighbourhood in the centre of the locality near the crossing of Adare Road over Redbank Creek ().

History

The locality is named after one of the Lockyer Valley's largest cattle properties of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had its homestead approximately seven kilometres north of Gatton on Adare Road. Its original homestead was moved from a site on the edge of Lake Clarendon in 1896 by William Drayton Armstrong, member of the

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and the

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from 1911 to 1915. Clarendon Provisional School opened on circa 1882. In 1903 it was renamed Springdale Provisional School. It became Springdale State School on 1 January 1909, but closed later in 1909. Its precise location is not known but it was in the vicinity of the intersection of (present day) Adare, Lake Clarendon and

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. In the , Adare had a population of 873 people.

Education

There are no schools in Adare. The nearest primary schools are Gatton State School in neighbouring Gatton to the south and Lake Clarendon State School in neighbouring Lake Clarendon to the east. The nearest secondary school is Lockyer District State High School in Gatton.

Notable residents

* William Drayton Armstrong, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly *

William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield William Charles Arcedeckne Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield, (3 January 1883 – 20 November 1969) was a British Conservative Party politician, Governor of Victoria, and Administrator of Australia. He was the first Australian-born governor of an ...

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(nephew of William Drayton Armstrong)

References

{{Lockyer Valley Region Lockyer Valley Region Localities in Queensland