Millwood is a rural

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in the

Toowoomba Region The Toowoomba Region is a Local government in Australia, local government area (LGA) on the border of Darling Downs and South East Queensland regions of Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, the LGA was preceded by several other local go ...

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, Australia. In the , Millwood had a population of 22 people.

Geography

The

Millmerran–Inglewood Road Millmerran–Inglewood Road is a continuous road route in the Toowoomba and Goondiwindi regions of Queensland, Australia. The road is signed as State Route 82. Millmerran–Inglewood Road (number 337) is a state-controlled regional road. R ...

(State Route 82) enters the locality from the north-east ( Clontarf) and exits to the south ( Bringalily).

History

The name ''Millwood'' was coined by local farmer, Tom Twidale, by combining ''Mill'' from

Millmerran Millmerran , known as Domville between 1 June 1889 and 16 November 1894, is a town and a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Millmerran had a population of 1,545 p ...

and ''wood'' from

Inglewood Inglewood may refer to: Places Australia *Inglewood, Queensland * Shire of Inglewood, Queensland, a former local government area *Inglewood, South Australia *Inglewood, Victoria *Inglewood, Western Australia Canada * Inglewood, Ontario *Inglewoo ...

as the locality lay between those two towns. Millwood Provisional School opened on 23 October 1944 under head teacher Murray Phillip Honor. In January 1960, it became Millwood State School. It closed on 25 June 1965 with the remaining students being transported each day to Millmerran State School. In 1966, the school building was relocated by the Millmerran Boy Scouts.

Demographics

In the , Millwood had a population of 23 people. In the , Millwood had a population of 22 people.

Education

There are no schools in Millwood. The nearest government school is Millmerran State School (Prep to Year 10) to

to the north. There is also a Catholic primary school in Millmerran. There are no nearby schools providing education to Year 12; the alternatives are

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance; today, it usually involves online ...

and boarding school.

References

{{Toowoomba Region Toowoomba Region Localities in Queensland