Ormeau Hills is a residential
locality
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in the
City of Gold Coast
The City of Gold Coast is the local government area spanning the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and surrounding areas. With a population of 606,774 it is the second most populous local government area in Australia (City of Brisbane being the ...
,
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
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, Australia.
In the Ormeau Hills had a population of 3,148 people.
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Geography
A small section of the eastern boundary of Ormeau Hills follows the Pacific Motorway.rural residential
A hobby farm (also called a lifestyle block in New Zealand, or acreage living or rural residential in Australia) is a smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are held merely to ...
. The west of the locality is more mountainous, rising to , and is undeveloped.
History
The name of the locality comes from the neighbouring locality of Ormeau Ormeau may refer to:
* Ormeau, Queensland, a town on the Gold Coast hinterland in Queensland, Australia
* Belfast Ormeau (UK Parliament constituency), 1918–1922
* Ormeau Road, a major road in Belfast, and the area around it
* "Ormeau", a song by ...
, which, in turn, takes its name from Ormeau House the estate of Major Alexander Jenyns Boyd, a sugar planter of the 1860s. His first wife, Isabella (née Dawson) was born at Ormeau Road
Ormeau Road is a road in south Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland.
Ormeau Park is adjacent to it. It forms part of the A24.
History
The road, as currently laid out, dates from the first decades of the 19th century when a bridge was built ...
, Belfast
Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...
, Ulster
Ulster (; ga, Ulaidh or ''Cúige Uladh'' ; sco, label= Ulster Scots, Ulstèr or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United King ...
, Ireland. The word ''ormeau'' is French, meaning ''young elm''.
Education
There are no schools in Ormeau HIlls. The nearest government primary school is Ormeau State School in neighbouring Pimpama
Pimpama is a northern suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the , Pimpama had a population of 9,396 people. The name is of Aboriginal origin. The suburb contains numerous schools with the first opening in the 1870s.
A s ...
to the east. The nearest government secondary school is Ormeau Woods State High School
Ormeau Woods State High School is a public secondary school located in the suburb of Ormeau on the Gold Coast, Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
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in neighbouring Ormeau Ormeau may refer to:
* Ormeau, Queensland, a town on the Gold Coast hinterland in Queensland, Australia
* Belfast Ormeau (UK Parliament constituency), 1918–1922
* Ormeau Road, a major road in Belfast, and the area around it
* "Ormeau", a song by ...
to the north-east.
References
{{Localities in Gold Coast
Suburbs of the Gold Coast, Queensland
Localities in Queensland