Bexley Station is a
pastoral lease that operates as a
sheep station
A sheep station is a large property ( station, the equivalent of a ranch) in Australia or New Zealand, whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and/or meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or sout ...
in
Queensland
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The property is situated approximately north of
Longreach
Longreach is a town and a locality in the Longreach Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Longreach Regional Council, which was established in 2008 as a merger of the former Longreach, Ilfracombe, and Isisford ...
and south of
Muttaburra
Muttaburra is an outback town and locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia. Muttaburra was the discovery site of the ''Muttaburrasaurus'', one of Australia's most famous dinosaurs.
Geography
Muttaburra is in the central west ...
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Established at some time prior to 1890 by Edward Goddard Blume, the paddocks were burnt out the same year with the loss of most feed and some fencing. The property was stocked with sheep, producing 68
bales of wool in 1892 and 71 in 1893.
Blume sold Bexley in 1939 to T. Scanlan. Blume sold the completely unstocked but retained the Yanburra portion of the property for himself.
The area was flooded in 1950 and then a plague of
snakes with 27 snakes being found in the homestead. In 1953 the property was owned by W. G. Allen and his wife and two sons.
The property, owned by the McPherson family, was deluged during a storm in 2001 when a total of of rain fell during a single storm that lasted nearly 24 hours.
In 2011 the property was still owned by Ross and Michelle McPherson.
See also
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List of ranches and stations
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
West Africa
* Obudu Cattle Ranch
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References
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Stations (Australian agriculture)
Pastoral leases in Queensland