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Sherwood is a
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in 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 ...
,
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, Australia. In the , Sherwood had a population of 6,082 people.


Geography

Sherwood is south west of the
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and bounded by the median of the
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towards the west. Oxley Road is the main thoroughfare through the suburb, entering from the north ( Graceville) and exiting to the south ( Corinda). The Ipswich railway line runs parallel to and west of Oxley Avenue, with the suburb served by
Sherwood railway station Sherwood railway station was a station on the former Great Northern Railway Nottingham Suburban railway in Nottingham. The station lies within Woodthorpe Grange Park in Woodthorpe. The NSR was built mainly for the brickworks of Mapperley and ...
(). The suburb is mostly low and
medium-density housing Medium-density housing is a term used within urban planning and academic literature to refer to a category of residential development that falls between detached suburban housing and large multi-story buildings. There is no singular definition of ...
with a retail strip centred along Sherwood Road.


History

West Oxley State School opened on Monday 25 March 1867. It was renamed Sherwood State School in 1878. The first head teacher was Major William Jenyns Boyd. He was born in Paris in 1842 and migrated to Australia in 1862. In 1868, Oliver Radcliffe was the first name on the roll as a pupil teacher. He became a teacher, a headmaster and then a school inspector. By his retirement in 1932, he was the Chief Inspector for the Queensland Education Department. He personally inspected schools from
Coolangatta Coolangatta is a coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is the Gold Coast's southernmost suburb and it borders New South Wales. In the , Coolangatta had a population of 6,491 people. History Coolangatta is situat ...
to
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and from
Rockhampton Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region of Central Queensland, Australia. In the , the population of Rockhampton was 79,293. A common nickname for Rockhampton is "Rocky", and the demonym of Rockhampton is Rockhamptonite. The Scottish- ...
to the border with
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. In 1879, the local government area of Yeerongpilly Division was created. In 1891 parts of Yeerongpilly Division were excised to create Sherwood Division becoming a Shire in 1903 which contained the suburb of Sherwood. In 1925, the
Shire of Sherwood The Shire of Sherwood is a former local government areas of Queensland, local government area of Queensland, Australia, located in south-western Brisbane in and around the suburb of Sherwood, Queensland, Sherwood. History On 11 November 1879, ...
was amalgamated into the
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. On Saturday 24 October 1885, auctioneers Arthur Martin and Co. offered 268 suburban blocks (mostly 16 perches) in the township of Sherwood Estate. Most of the blocks were in the area bounded by Oxley Road to the west, Government Road (now Sherwood Road) to the north and the Corinda–Yeerongpilly railway line to the south-east. The remaining blocks were south of the railway line on Railway Terrace. However, only about 40 blocks were sold. On Saturday 23 June 1888 auctioneer John F. Buckland offered the remaining 200 suburban blocks in the township of Sherwood Estate. Sherwood Methodist Church was built in 1914. It was designed by Walter Taylor and built from concrete. Following the amalgamation that created the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became known as Sherwood Uniting Church. A Sunday School hall was opened on Saturday 29 June 1918. On Saturday 17 March 1928, Herbert Hoare in conjunction with auctioneer Norman C. Cossart offered 8 suburban sites in the Sherwood Station Estate, which was bounded by Dewar Terrace to the west, Station Street (now Marlborough Street) to the north and Honour Avenue to the east (and north of Lilly Street). The land was formerly the home of judge
Pope Alexander Cooper Sir Pope Alexander Cooper (12 May 184630 August 1923) was an attorney-general and a chief judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia. Early life Pope Alexander Cooper was born at Willeroo Station, Lake George, New South Wales, the so ...
who died in 1923. Sherwood was badly flooded in February 1931, January 2011 and February 2022.


Demographics

In the , Sherwood had a population of 5,313 people, 52.9% female and 47.1% male. The median age of the Sherwood population was 35 years, three years below the Australian median. 71.2% of people living in Sherwood were born in Australia, similar to the national average of 66.7%. The other top responses for country of birth were England 5.0%, New Zealand 2.5%, India 1.9%, South Korea 0.9%, China (excluding SARs and Taiwan) 0.8%. 82.3% of people spoke only English at home; other languages include 1.3% Mandarin, 1.0% Korean, 0.8% Spanish, 0.7% Persian, 0.7% Hindi. In the , Sherwood had a population of 6,082 people.


Heritage listings

Sherwood 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: * 57 Dewar Terrace: John Herbert Memorial Vista * 22 Ettie Street: 22 Ettie Street, Sherwood (also known as Mayfield) * 9 Hazelmere Parade: Hazelmere * 40 Hazelmere Parade: 40 Hazelmere Parade Sherwood * 47 Hazelmere Parade: 47 Hazelmere Parade, Sherwood (also known as The Terrace) * 62 Kitchener Street: 62 Kitchener Street, Sherwood * 25 Lahey Close: Lahey's Corinda Sawmill * 36 Lilly Street: Dunalister (also known as Sherwood Private Hospital) * 56 Lilly Street: 56 Lilly Street, Sherwood (also known as Benaraby) * 31 Linda Street: 31 Linda Street, Sherwood * 464 Oxley Road: Sherwood State School * 481 Oxley Road: St Matthew's Anglican Church * 515 Oxley Road: former Sherwood Presbyterian Church (also known as Sherwood Uniting Church) * 526 Oxley Road: Shop & Residence * 46 Primrose Street: Almaden * 533 Sherwood Road: Berry & MacFarlane Monument * 533 Sherwood Road: Sherwood Anglican Cemetery (also known as St. Matthew's Cemetery) * 706 Sherwood Road: Sherwood Uniting Church * 34 Thallon Street: Hives Park (includes park, scout & guide huts & kindergarten) * 39A Turner Street:
Sherwood Arboretum Sherwood Arboretum is a heritage-listed arboretum at 39A Turner Street, Sherwood, Queensland, Sherwood, Queensland, Australia. A 1946 addition to the site is also known as the John Herbert Memorial Vista. It was added to the Queensland Heritag ...
, a large
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and lake fronting the river which was planned and landscaped in the 1920s.


Education

Sherwood State School is a government primary (Prep–6) school for boys and girls at 464 Oxley Road (). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 586 students with 41 teachers (34 full-time equivalent) and 31 non-teaching staff (17 full-time equivalent). The school has preserved many of its historic timber buildings. There is no secondary school in Sherwood. The nearest government secondary school is
Corinda State High School Corinda State High School (CSHS) is a non-selective, co-educational, state secondary school, located in Corinda, Queensland, Australia. The school was established in 1960. Campus The school is located on one campus in the western suburbs of Br ...
in neighbouring Corinda to the south.


Amenities

There are a number of churches in Sherwood, including: * St Matthew's
Anglican Church Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...
, 497 Oxley Road (corner of Sherwood Road, ) * Sherwood
Uniting Church The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) is a united church in Australia. The church was founded on 22 June 1977 when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two-thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost a ...
, 706 Sherwood Road (corner of Thallon Street, ) * Sherwood
Methodist Church Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christianity, Christian Christian tradition, tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother ...
with services in English and
Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
, 405 Oxley Road () * Sherwood Romanian
Seventh-day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sa ...
, 551 Sherwood Road () Sherwood contains a few parks in different parts of the suburb. The
Sherwood Arboretum Sherwood Arboretum is a heritage-listed arboretum at 39A Turner Street, Sherwood, Queensland, Sherwood, Queensland, Australia. A 1946 addition to the site is also known as the John Herbert Memorial Vista. It was added to the Queensland Heritag ...
is on the western side of the suburb, 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 ...
. Hives park borders the Ipswich line on the southern end of the suburb, and contains a
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building. Thomas Street Park and Strickland Terrace Park is on the eastern end of the suburb, bordering the
Oxley Creek The Oxley Creek ( Yagara: ''Benarrawa'') is a creek that is a tributary of the Brisbane River, located in suburban Brisbane in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. Rising in the hills in Undullah in Logan City, water from the lar ...
. The Stewart Franklin Park is a small park on the southern border of the suburb, next to the Tennyson line. The Sherwood Sharks swimming club uses the Sherwood State School Pool.


Transport

The suburb is serviced by the
Sherwood railway station Sherwood railway station was a station on the former Great Northern Railway Nottingham Suburban railway in Nottingham. The station lies within Woodthorpe Grange Park in Woodthorpe. The NSR was built mainly for the brickworks of Mapperley and ...
which links
Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...
and the Springfield Central lines to the
Brisbane central business district Brisbane City is the central 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 "town". The CBD is located on a point ...
. Bus services along Oxley Road link the Centenary suburbs to
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 ...
and the Great Circle Line service passes through the suburb.


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