Ipswich () is the central

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and

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Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

in the

City of Ipswich The City of Ipswich is a local government area in Queensland, Australia, located within the southwest of the Brisbane metropolitan area, including the urban area surrounding the city of Ipswich and surrounding rural areas. Geography The Ci ...

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, Australia. It is also known as Ipswich CBD (central business district). In the , the suburb had a population of 2,459 people.

Geography

The suburb is situated on the Bremer River. The suburb of Ipswich has a number of distinct areas. The Ipswich central business district is in the north with the Bremer River forming the northern boundary. Limestone Hill and its parklands are to the east (). Denmark Hill with its exclusive residential area and conservation park is to the west (). A mixture of health, educations and residential areas make up the south. The Ipswich CBD is centred on Brisbane and Limestone Streets, and the Ipswich Mall, and includes major supermarkets and chain stores, specialties stores and the many government agencies. Most street parking is controlled by parking meters in business hours.

History

In 1860 a Baptist Church opened in Ipswich. On Monday 11 December 1876 a foundation stone was laid for a new Baptist church building, which opened about 19 June 1877. Ipswich Girls Grammar School opened on 1 February 1892.

Heritage listings

Ipswich has a number of

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sites, including: * 5 Brisbane Street: Queensland Country Women's Association Girls' Hostel * 25 Brisbane Street: Ulster Hotel * 89 Brisbane Street:

Queensland National Bank The Queensland National Bank is a former bank in Queensland, Australia. History In 1872, the bank was established in Brisbane. In December 1914, the bank had its head office in Brisbane with branches throughout Queensland at Allora, Aramac, A ...

* 93 Brisbane Street: William Johnston's Shops * 116 Brisbane Street:

Old Ipswich Town Hall Old Ipswich Town Hall is a heritage-listed former town hall at 116 Brisbane Street, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by James Percy Owen Cowlishaw and built from 1861 to 1879. It is also known as Mechanics Scho ...

* 116A Brisbane Street: former

Bank of Australasia The Bank of Australasia was an Australian bank in operation from 1835 to 1951. Headquartered in London, the bank was incorporated by Royal Charter in March 1834. It had initially been planned to additionally include first South Africa and then ...

* 124 Brisbane Street: St Pauls Anglican Church * 169-175 Brisbane Street: Bostock Chambers * 188 Brisbane Street:

Baptist Church Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only (believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compete ...

* 231 Brisbane Street:

Flour Mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separat ...

* 253 Brisbane Street: Hotel Metropole * 68 Chermside Road: St Michaels Nursing Home * 82 Chermside Road:

Ipswich Girls' Grammar School Buildings Ipswich Girls' Grammar School Buildings is a heritage-listed group of private school buildings at Ipswich Girls' Grammar School, 82 Chermside Road, Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. They were built from 189 ...

* 82 Chermside Road: Lime Kiln Remains * 48 d'Arcy Doyle Place (formerly Nicholas Street): St Paul's Young Men's Club * Ellenborough Street: Ipswich Central Mission * Ellenborough Street: Railway Signal Cabin and Turntable * 45 East Street: Ipswich & West Moreton Building Society building * 59 East Street:

Old Ipswich Courthouse The Old Ipswich Courthouse is a heritage-listed former courthouse located at 73-75 East Street, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Charles Tiffin and built from 1859 to 1936. It was added to the Queensland Heri ...

* 86 East Street:

Uniting Church Central Memorial Hall Uniting Church Central Memorial Hall is a heritage-listed church hall at 86 East Street, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Brockwell Gill and built from 1895 to 1895 by W Betts. It is also known as Congr ...

* 1 Ginn Street: Ginn Cottage * 14 Gray Street:

Ipswich Club House Ipswich Club House is a heritage-listed villa at 14 Gray Street, Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by George Brockwell Gill and built from to 1916. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Reg ...

* Limestone Street:

Liberty Hall Liberty Hall ( ga, Halla na Saoirse), in Dublin, Ireland, is the headquarters of the Services, Industrial, Professional, and Technical Union (SIPTU). Designed by Desmond Rea O'Kelly, it was completed in 1965. It was for a time the tallest b ...

* 22 Limestone Street: St Stephen's Church * 88 Limestone Street: Ipswich Technical College * 103 Limestone Street:

Penrhyn Penryn is a Cornish word meaning 'headland' that may refer to: *Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom, a town of about 7,000 on the Penryn River **Penryn railway station, a station on the Maritime Line between Truro and Falmouth Docks, and serves the to ...

* 109 Limestone Street: Colthup's House * 7 Macalister Street: To-Me-Ree * Milford Street: Queens Park * 1A Milford Street: Claremont * 10A Milford Street: Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator * 11 Murphy Street: Brickstone * 63 Nicholas Street: Soldiers' Memorial Hall * 3 Parker Avenue:

Ipswich Mental Hospital Ipswich Mental Hospital is a heritage-listed psychiatric hospital at 3 Parker Avenue, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Works Department and built from 1933 to 1940. It is also known as Ipswich Hosp ...

(Challinor Centre) * 21 Quarry Street:

Central Congregational Church Manse Central Congregational Church Manse is a heritage-listed manse at 21 Quarry Street, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed and built in 1883 by Samuel Shenton. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 Oct ...

* 30 Quarry Street:

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(formerly known as Devonshire Cottage) * 43 Quarry Street: Gooloowan * Rockton Street: Rockton * 20 Roderick Street: Keiraville * 66 Roderick Street: Ozanam House

Transport

Local transport

There are three forms of public train transport servicing the Ipswich region. *

Queensland Rail City network The Queensland Rail Citytrain network, provides urban, suburban and interurban electric passenger railway services in South East Queensland, Australia. History The first railway in Queensland did not run to Brisbane, but ran from Ipswich to ...

offers regular services to and from

Ipswich railway station Ipswich railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the town of Ipswich, Suffolk. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and, on the main line, it is situated between to the south and to the ...

to Brisbane, Brisbane Airport, the eastern suburbs, and western suburbs (as far as Rosewood). *Westside Buslines is the prominent bus company in Ipswich, linking all sides of town to Ipswich CBD; Redbank; Springfield; or Forest Lake (in Brisbane). *Southern Cross Citilink is a bus which operates between Ipswich and Indooroopilly via Riverlink, Karalee, Chuwar, Karana Downs, Anstead, and Kenmore. *

Queensland Rail Queensland Rail (QR) is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia. Owned by the Queensland Government, it operates local and long-distance passenger services, as well as owning and maintaining approximately 6,600 kilometres of track and relate ...

buses offer direct daily services to Gatton, Helidon, Fernvale,

Lowood Lowood is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Lowood had a population of 4,159 people. Geography The town is on the Brisbane River, west of the ...

Coominya Coominya is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region in South East Queensland, Australia. The town is located west of the state capital, Brisbane and approximately from Wivenhoe Dam. In the , Coominya had a population of 1,200 people. ...

, Esk, and Toogoolawah. *An Airport Express Bus operates from Ipswich to

Brisbane Airport Brisbane Airport is the primary international airport serving Brisbane and South East Queensland. The airport services 31 airlines flying to 50 domestic and 29 international destinations, in total amounting to more than 22.7 million passeng ...

on a regular basis. Ipswich also has direct access to the

Ipswich Motorway The Ipswich Motorway (M7) is a major road that connects Brisbane and Ipswich in South East Queensland, Australia. It commences at the junction of Ipswich Road and Granard Road and proceeds through to the M2 Logan Motorway interchange. It is the ...

(linking to Brisbane); the

Cunningham Highway The Cunningham Highway is a national highway located in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. The highway links the Darling Downs region with the urbanised outskirts of via Cunninghams Gap. The Cunningham carries the National Highway 15 sh ...

(linking to Warwick); the

Warrego Highway The Warrego Highway is located in southern Queensland, Australia. It connects coastal centres to the south western areas of the state, and is approximately 715 km in length. It takes its name from the Warrego River, which is the endpoint ...

(linking to Toowoomba); and the

Centenary Highway The M5 (Centenary Motorway) is a motorway in the western suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. It starts as a two-lane arterial road at Yamanto, travelling to Springfield, where it becomes a two-lane highway and travels across the M2 Logan Motorw ...

(linking Springfield and the Ripley Valley to Brisbane).

Long distance transport

The Westlander ''The Westlander'' is an Australian passenger train operated by Queensland Rail on the Main and Western lines between Brisbane and the outback town of Charleville. Background In the 1888 timetable the train from Brisbane to Roma was officiall ...

train pasts through Ipswich Station twice a week to

Toowoomba Toowoomba ( , nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar') is a city in the Toowoomba Region of the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. It is west of Queensland's capital city Brisbane by road. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the 2021 C ...

and

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. *

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(coaches) offer daily direct services to

Mount Isa Mount Isa ( ) is a city in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, Australia. It came into existence because of the vast mineral deposits found in the area. Mount Isa Mines (MIM) is one of the most productive single mines in world history, bas ...

and

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

from the Ipswich Transit Centre. *

Crisps Coaches Crisps Coaches is an Australian bus company operating services in South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales Services Crisps Coaches is a bus and coach operator, based in Warwick. As well as local school services it operates services fr ...

offer daily direct services to and from

Warwick, Queensland Warwick ( ) is a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in southeast Queensland, Australia, lying south-west of Brisbane. It is the administrative centre of the Southern Downs Region Local government in Australia, local governme ...

and

Stanthorpe Stanthorpe is a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Stanthorpe had a population of 5,406 people. The area surrounding the town is known as the Granite Belt. Geography Stanthorpe lies on the New ...

Education

Ipswich Central State School is a government primary (Early Childhood-6) school for boys and girls at Griffith Road (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 708 students with 54 teachers (50 full-time equivalent) and 43 non-teaching staff (28 full-time equivalent). It includes a special education program. Ipswich Special School is a special primary and secondary (Early Childhood-12) school for boys and girls at 2a Milford Street (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 116 students with 51 teachers (41 full-time equivalent) and 67 non-teaching staff (39 full-time equivalent). Bremer State High School is a government secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at 133-153 Warwick Road (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 1867 students with 146 teachers (143 full-time equivalent) and 83 non-teaching staff (61 full-time equivalent). Ipswich Flexible Learning Centre is a Catholic secondary (7-12) school for boys and girls at Cnr Queen Victoria Parade & Milford Place (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 121 students with 13 teachers (9 full-time equivalent) and 13 non-teaching staff (9 full-time equivalent). Ipswich Girls' Grammar School is a private primary and secondary (Prep-12) school for boys and girls at Cnr Queen Victoria Parade & Chermside Road (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 852 students with 73 teachers (69 full-time equivalent) and 126 non-teaching staff (53 full-time equivalent). The

University of Southern Queensland The University of Southern Queensland (branded as UniSQ and formerly branded as USQ) is a medium-sized, regional university based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, with three university campuses at Toowoomba, Springfield and Ipswich. It offe ...

has a campus at Ipswich Campus. It was formerly the Ipswich Campus of the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

and the

(Challinor Centre).

Libraries

The Ipswich Council operates the Ipswich Central Library at 40 South Street. It opened in 1994 and had a major refurbishment in 2017.

Health

Ipswich Hospital Ipswich Hospital is a large district general hospital in Heath Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It is now managed by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which was formed on 1 July 2018 by the merging of Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust w ...

Chelmsford Avenue *St Andrews Private Hospital, Roderick Street Many GPs and specialists can be found in Brisbane and Limestone Street, and near both hospitals.

Parks and sports facilities

* Queens Park * Limestone Park (AFL, running track, velodrome, netball) * Sandy Gallop Golf Course * BMX track * Denmark Hill Conservation Park * Ipswich Show Ground (including indoor sports centre)

Places of worship

Uniting Church Central Memorial Hall, Ipswich, Queensland

* St Mary's Catholic Church, Elizabeth Street * St Paul's Anglican Church, Brisbane Street * Calvary Baptist Church, Chermside Street * Uniting Church, Ellenborough Street * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, cnr Hunter and Haig Streets * The Salvation Army, South Street * Jehovah's Witnesses, Salisbury Street * St John's Lutheran Church, Roderick Street * Centro Church, Pring Street

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ipswich (Suburb), Queensland Suburbs of Ipswich, Queensland Central business districts in Australia