Villeneuve is a rural town and

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in the

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, Australia. In the , the locality of Villeneuve had a population of 193 people.

Geography

A section of the northern boundary of Villeneuve follows the D'Aguilar Highway. The eastern and southern boundaries of the locality are the Stanley River and

Lake Somerset The Somerset Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with a gated spillway across the Stanley River in Queensland, Australia. It is within the locality of Somerset Dam in the Somerset Region in South East Queensland. The main purpose of the dam is ...

created by the

Somerset Dam The Somerset Dam is a mass concrete gravity dam with a gated spillway across the Stanley River in Queensland, Australia. It is within the locality of Somerset Dam in the Somerset Region in South East Queensland. The main purpose of the dam i ...

impounding the Stanley River. The land use is a mix of

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(mostly near the lake) and

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on native vegetation. The

Kilcoy railway line The Kilcoy railway line is a disused, partly demolished narrow gauge railway in South East Queensland, Australia. History The first section of the line opened from Caboolture to Woodford on 6 December 1909. It was extended to Kilcoy on 22 De ...

passed through Villeneuve which was served by two railway stations (now both dismantled): * Villeneuve railway station () * Royston railway station ()

History

The town is named after the Villeneuve railway station, which in turn took its name from Frank Villeneuve Nicholson, owner of the property Villeneuve. Farming was established at Villeneuve in the late 1870s. Villeneuve Provisional School opened on 30 May 1887 with a new building erected in 1888 which it shared with the Anglican Church. In 1902, it was relocated to Westvale and renamed West Vale Provisional School. St Barnabas' Anglican Church was dedicated on Sunday 2 September 1888 by local rector Reverend J.F. Leighton. It occupied shared premises with the provisional school with the school room being the

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of the church with a

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being added for church services. It closed circa 1961. A second Villeneuve Provisional School was built in 1902, which became Villeneuve State School on 1 January 1900. It closed in 1960. It was to the immediate north of the Villeneuve railway station at 1 Mclauchlan Street (). As a result of the creation of the

(completed in 1958), some of Villeneuve is now inundated.

Demographics

In the , the locality of Villeneuve had a population of 179 people. In the , the locality of Villeneuve had a population of 193 people.

Education

There are no schools in Villenueve. The nearest government primary school is Kilcoy State School in Kilcoy to the west. The nearest government secondary school is Kilcoy State High School, also in Kilcoy.

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