Boynewood is a rural

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in the

North Burnett Region The North Burnett Region is a local government area in Queensland, Australia in the northern catchment of the Burnett River. Established in 2008, it was preceded by several previous local government areas with histories extending back to the ear ...

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 , Boynewood had a population of 138 people.

Geography

The locality is bounded to the north by the

Burnett River The Burnett River is a river in the Wide Bay–Burnett and Central Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia. Course and features The Burnett River rises in the Burnett Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, close to Mount Gaeta and east ...

and to the west and south by its tributary the Boyne River. The Mundubbera-Durong Road ( State Route 75) passes through the locality from the north-east (

Mundubbera Mundubbera ( ) is a rural town and a locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Mundubbera had a population of 1,120 people. Mundubbera is the self-proclaimed "Citrus Capital of Queensland", although ...

) to the south-west ( Derri Derra). The principal land use is crop farming and orchards.

History

Boynewood State School opened on 2 February 1915 on the northern corner of Dykehead Road and Taylors Road (approx ). In 1934, the school was relocated to its present site in order to be more centrally located. All Saints' Anglican church was officially opened on Sunday 9 February 1919 by Archdeacon

Arthur Rivers Arthur Richard Rivers (1857–1940) was Dean of Hobart from 1920 to 1940. Early life Rivers was born in Teignmouth and educated at St John's College, Oxford. His younger brother was Richard Godfrey Rivers, an artist and gallery curator. Re ...

. It closed circa 1989.

Demographics

In the , Boynewood had a population of 172 people. In the , Boynewood had a population of 138 people.

Education

Boynewood State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 1138 Durong Road (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 29 students with 3 teachers (2 full-time equivalent) and 5 non-teaching staff (2 full-time equivalent). There are no secondary schools in Boynewood. The nearest government secondary schools are Mundubbera State College (to Year 10) in neighbouring

to the north, Burnett State College (to Year 12) in

Gayndah Gayndah () is a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre for the North Burnett Region. In the , the locality of Gayndah had a population of 1,949 p ...

to the east, and Eidsvold State School (to Year 12) in Eidsvold to the north-west.

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