Auchenflower is an inner western riverside

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated ...

of the

City of Brisbane The City of Brisbane is a local government area (LGA) which comprises the inner portion of Greater Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. Its governing body is the Brisbane City Council. The LGAs in the other mainland state capitals ...

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

, Australia. In the , Auchenflower had a population of 6,053 people.

Geography

Auchenflower is located west of the

Brisbane CBD Brisbane City is the central Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb and central business district of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. It is also colloquially referred to as the "Brisbane CBD", "the city", or simply "to ...

bordering the

Brisbane River The Brisbane River (Turrbal language, Turrbal: ) is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia. It flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the ...

. The area features a hilly terrain and pockets of green spaces, offering residents scenic views and recreational opportunities.

History

The area was formerly populated by rural estates, one of which was named ''Auchenflower'' by

Thomas McIlwraith Sir Thomas McIlwraith (17 May 1835 – 17 July 1900) was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland. He was Premier of Queensland from 1879 to 1883, again in 1888, and for a third time in 1893. In common with most po ...

circa 1880. The name ''Auchenflower'' is a

Gaelic Gaelic (pronounced for Irish Gaelic and for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to: Languages * Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insul ...

word meaning ''field of flowers'', namely ''Achadh nan Flùr''. Between 1900 and 1962 Auchenflower was served by

tram A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...

s running along

Milton Road Milton Road is an arterial road in Brisbane, Australia. It is currently signed as State route, State Route 32 for its entire length. Milton Road is a major corridor for traffic between the Brisbane central business district and the western su ...

from

Toowong Toowong ( ) is a riverside Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Toowong had a population of 12,556 people with a median weekly household income of $1,927. Geography Toowong is ...

. The services were withdrawn after the disastrous

Paddington tram depot fire The Paddington tram depot fire occurred on the night of 28 September 1962, and was one of the largest fires in Brisbane's history. St Alban the Martyr Anglican Church was dedicated by

Archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...

Gerald Sharp on 18 November 1923. In 1954 the foundation stone for a new church building was laid by Archbishop

Philip Strong :''Both the subject and his father sometimes used ''Warrington Strong'' as a surname.'' Sir Philip Nigel Warrington Strong (11 July 18996 July 1983) served as the fourth Bishop of New Guinea from 1936 to 1962 and the fifth Anglican Anglican Ar ...

. The church's deconsecration and closure in 2015 was approved by Local Bishop

Godfrey Fryar Godfrey Charles Fryar was the eleventh Bishop of Rockhampton in the Anglican Church of Australia. Early life Fryar was educated at All Souls' Charters Towers. Religious life Fryar and ordained in 1973. He was a Bush Brother until 1976 ...

. The site is being redeveloped for residential apartments. In 1975, the first NightOwl convenience store was opened at 392 Milton Road (). From 1975 to 1986, Auchenflower was officially a neighbourhood with the suburb of

, but obtained independent suburb status on 16 November 1986. In January 2011, Auchenflower experienced flooding as part of the

2010–11 Queensland floods 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

Demographics

In the , Auchenflower had a population of 5,870 people, 50% female and 50% male. The median age of the Auchenflower population was 31 years of age, 7 years below the Australian median. 67.9% of people were born in Australia., compared to the national average of 66.7; the next most common countries of birth were England 3.2%, New Zealand 2.9%, India 2.2% and China 1.8%. 77.0% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin at 2.1%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 38.5% and Catholic 21.4%. In the , Auchenflower had a population of 6,053 people.

Heritage listings

Auchenflower has a number of

heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In ma ...

sites, including: *

Raymont Lodge Raymont Residential College (commonly known as Raymont College) is a student residential college with its offices in Drysllwyn, a heritage-listed mansion at 47 Cadell Street, on the border of Toowong and Auchenflower, City of Brisbane, Queenslan ...

, 45 Cadell Street * Moorlands, 451 Coronation Drive (now within the grounds of the Wesley Hospital)

Education

There are no schools in Auchenflower. The nearest government primary schools are Milton State School in neighbouring Milton to the north-east,

Rainworth State School Rainworth State School is a heritage-listed state school at 185 Boundary Road, Bardon, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1929 to 1930. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 August 2019. History Rain ...

in neighbouring Bardon to the north-west, and

Toowong State School Toowong State School is a heritage-listed state school at 50 Quinn Street (37 St Osyth Street), Toowong, Queensland, Toowong, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Robert Ferguson (architect), Robert and John Ferguson (arc ...

in neighbouring

to the south-west. The nearest government secondary schools are

Kelvin Grove State College Kelvin Grove State College is a government primary secondary school in Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, three kilometres from Brisbane’s central business district and adjacent the Kelvin Grove campus of Queensland University o ...

in Kelvin Grove to the north-east and

Indooroopilly State High School Indooroopilly State High School (ISHS), colloquially known as "Indro", is a state high school situated in the south-western suburb of Indooroopilly in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The school was founded in 1954, and offers the Internation ...

Indooroopilly Indooroopilly ( , colloquially Indro ) is a riverside suburb south-west of the Brisbane CBD, Queensland, Australia. In the , Indooroopilly had a population of 13,622 people. Geography Indooroopilly is bounded to the south and south-east by ...

to the south.

Facilities

The Wesley Hospital is a private hospital at 451 Coronation Drive, but its main entry is on Chasely Street (). It extends west through to the

Auchenflower railway station Auchenflower railway station is located on the Main Line railway, Queensland, Main line in Queensland, Australia. It serves the Brisbane suburb of Auchenflower, Queensland, Auchenflower, adjacent to the Wesley Hospital (Brisbane), Wesley Hospit ...

on the

Ipswich railway line The Ipswich and Rosewood line refers to the section of the Main Line to Toowoomba that has a regular suburban rail service, extending southwest from the Brisbane central business district. It is part of the Queensland Rail City network. H ...

Auchenflower Stadium Auchenflower Stadium is an Australian basketball centre in Auchenflower, Queensland Auchenflower is an inner western riverside Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Auchenflower ...

(also known as NAB Stadium), previously known as The Auchendome, is a basketball centre in Auchenflower, Queensland.

Transport

By train, the

is the second station on the Ipswich line west of

Roma Street railway station Roma Street railway station is a commuter and long-distance passenger train station located in the Brisbane central business district, central business district of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is the junction station for the North Coast ...

. By bus, Auchenflower is served by most western suburb bus routes operated by

Transport for Brisbane Transport for Brisbane, previously called Brisbane Transport'','' is an organisational division of the Brisbane City Council, responsible through its related Council Committee for providing policy and advice to Brisbane City Council, and for de ...

. By road, Auchenflower has two main roads through the suburb,

Coronation Drive Coronation Drive, popularly known as Coro Drive, is a road in Brisbane, Queensland, which connects the Central Business District to the suburb of Toowong. It follows the Brisbane River from the Riverside Expressway, through the suburbs of Mil ...

and

, both running from the

towards the western suburbs. As of 2006 the "

TransApex TransApex was a road transport plan devised by Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman in the early 2000s to connect existing motorways and major arterial roads with new transport links and divert cross-city traffic out of the Brisbane central busine ...

" traffic proposal touted by the former Lord Mayor,

Campbell Newman Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman (born 12 August 1963) is an Australian former politician who served as the 38th Premier of Queensland from 26 March 2012 to 14 February 2015. He served as the member for Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Que ...

, involves the construction of a major road tunnel system through Brisbane, including one to run under Toowong, Auchenflower and Milton, possibly along the alignment of Milton Road. By bicycle, the Bicentennial Bikeway runs along the

allowing access to the Brisbane CBD through to

References

Sources

* *

External links

* * *
The many lives of Auchenflower House

State Library of Queensland State Library of Queensland (State Library) is the state public reference and research library of Queensland, Australia, operated by the Government of Queensland, state government. The Library is governed by the Library Board of Queensland, whi ...

{{Suburbs of Brisbane City Council Suburbs of the City of Brisbane