Everything about Oxley Queensland totally explained
Oxley is a south-western suburb of
Brisbane named after the early Australian explorer
John Oxley. The suburb supports a mix of residential and industrial land use as well as a small number of shops in two
commercial districts. The suburb is bounded to the north by the
Brisbane River and
Oxley Creek flows along the eastern edge.
The
Ipswich Motorway traverses Oxley and the train from Brisbane to
Ipswich has an
station at Oxley, and is connected to a variety of suburbs via bus services. Oxley Road connects the Ipswich Motorway to the suburb of
Indooroopilly.
The
Western Gateway Recycled Water Scheme is currently being built across the mid parts of the suburb.
Attractions
Oxley has a golf course and golf driving range, a lawn bowls club, the state's police academy, a mosque and numerous churches. There are also numerous parks, larger blocks of residential plots, and a few landscaping material suppliers in the western parts of Oxley.
The old Austral Bricks
quarry site in Douglas Street, which contains clay pits and small dams, is currently being filled in. This filling could take until mid 2008. The clean-fill is surplus dirt from the construction of a highway to
Springfield. Once completed the site will be turned into an industrial area containing a number of fireworks factories to compensate the "Good Times" firework company who lost their factories in mid 1998.
History
The suburb was originally a stop-over point on the
Cobb & Co coach route west to the
Darling Downs.
The quarry was originally owned by Britain Bricks. For many years the site was a brickworks, sourcing clay directly from adjacent pits. After production stopped, the kiln stack remained intact. During the mid 1990's however, the tall structure was removed as it was attracting constant lighting strikes during storms.
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