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Amiens, Queensland
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Amiens is a rural locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Amiens had a population of 343 people.
Amiens Road commences in Stanthorpe to the south-east and enters the locality of Amiens from the south-east (Broadwater / Cannon Creek) and passes through the locality as its major route, before exiting to the north-east (Bapaume).
Most of the west of the locality is within the Passchendaele State Forest which extends into neighbouring Passchendaele to the north. Apart from this protected area, the land use is a mixture of rural residential housing, grazing on native vegetation, and crop growing (some of it irrigated).
Following World War I, Amiens was one of the Pikedale soldier settlements established in the Granite Belt area of the Darling Downs.
The name Amiens refers to the World War I battlefield in northern France, of special importance to the Australian Imperial Force in March–April 1918. The name was suggested by surveyor George Grant in 1920.
Construction of the Amiens railway line commenced in 1919 and the line was opened on 7 June 1920 with the locality being served by the now-dismantled Amiens railway station (28°35′12″S 151°48′22″E / 28.5866°S 151.8062°E). Edward, Prince of Wales travelled the length of the Amiens branch in a royal train to officially open the line on 26 July 1920.
On Saturday 15 October 1921, a Methodist church was officially opened in Amiens by Reverend Edwin George Walker, of Stanthorpe. It had been relocated from Tannymorel (where it had been opened in 1902). In 1945, it was relocated to Severnlea, where it is now operates as the Severnlea Uniting Church.
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Amiens, Queensland
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Amiens is a rural locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Amiens had a population of 343 people.
Amiens Road commences in Stanthorpe to the south-east and enters the locality of Amiens from the south-east (Broadwater / Cannon Creek) and passes through the locality as its major route, before exiting to the north-east (Bapaume).
Most of the west of the locality is within the Passchendaele State Forest which extends into neighbouring Passchendaele to the north. Apart from this protected area, the land use is a mixture of rural residential housing, grazing on native vegetation, and crop growing (some of it irrigated).
Following World War I, Amiens was one of the Pikedale soldier settlements established in the Granite Belt area of the Darling Downs.
The name Amiens refers to the World War I battlefield in northern France, of special importance to the Australian Imperial Force in March–April 1918. The name was suggested by surveyor George Grant in 1920.
Construction of the Amiens railway line commenced in 1919 and the line was opened on 7 June 1920 with the locality being served by the now-dismantled Amiens railway station (28°35′12″S 151°48′22″E / 28.5866°S 151.8062°E). Edward, Prince of Wales travelled the length of the Amiens branch in a royal train to officially open the line on 26 July 1920.
On Saturday 15 October 1921, a Methodist church was officially opened in Amiens by Reverend Edwin George Walker, of Stanthorpe. It had been relocated from Tannymorel (where it had been opened in 1902). In 1945, it was relocated to Severnlea, where it is now operates as the Severnlea Uniting Church.
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