Ashwell is a rural

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in the City of Ipswich,

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, Australia. In the , Ashwell had a population of 85 people.

Geography

Kunkala is a neighbourhood in the north of the locality () near the Kunkala railway station () on the now-closed

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History

The origin of the name Ashwell is from a town in the

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by the name of

Ashwell Ashwell may refer to: Places *Ashwell, Devon *Ashwell, Hertfordshire *Ashwell, Rutland *Ashwell, Somerset *Ashwell, Queensland, a suburb of Ipswich, in Australia People *Gilbert Ashwell (1916–2014) *Lena Ashwell (1872–1957) *Richard Ashwel ...

. Walter Loveday and Henry Stevens provided an acre each of land for a school in this district to be named Ashwell after Walter Loveday's farm titled Ashwell which he named after

. Ashwell State School opened on 8 November 1887. The name ''Kunkala'' may be an Aboriginal word for ''running fresh water.'' At the Ashwell and nearby Lanefield recorded a population of 234. In the , Ashwell had a population of 85 people.

Education

Ashwell State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 35 Reinke Road (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 58 students with 4 teachers and 8 non-teaching staff (4 full-time equivalent). There is no secondary school in Ashwell. The nearest secondary school is Rosewood State High School in neighbouring Rosewood to the south-east.

References

{{Ipswich City City of Ipswich Localities in Queensland