Leyburn, Queensland

Infobox Australian Place
type = town
name = Leyburn
state = qld


caption =
lga = Southern Downs Regional Council
postcode = 4365
est =
pop = 348
pop_footnotes=
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov =
fedgov = Maranoa
dist1 = 204
dir1 = WSW
location1= Brisbane
dist2 = 68
dir2 = SW
location2= Toowoomba
dist3 = 60
dir3 = NW
location3= Warwick

Leyburn (pronounced Leeburn) is a town in the Southern Downs region of Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 census, Leyburn and the surrounding area had a population of 348.Census 2006 AUS
id=SSC36547
name=Leyburn (Warwick Shire) (State Suburb)
accessdate=2008-07-05
quick=on]

History

Leyburn was named in the 1840s by William Gray, Snr., who came to the area by bullock dray from Pitt Town on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales. From series of articles published under the title "Queensland place names and obelisks" by Sydney May (formerly Honorary Secretary of the Queensland Place Names Committee) in "Local Government", June 1957 - November 1964] The first name for the locality was Canal Creek; the name was changed to Leyburn by Henry and Jane Kirby, Gray's son-in-law and daughter, and derives from the market town of Leyburn in the English county of Yorkshire. The site for the town was surveyed in November 1852. Henry Kirby and another man named Collins applied in 1854 for the licence of the "Travellers' Home Inn" at Leyburn.

The post office at Leyburn opened on 1 January 1861. [ Porter, Harry S. (1954) "Queensland Numeral Cancellations", p. 13. Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press]

References

External links

* [http://www.smh.com.au/news/Queensland/Leyburn/2005/02/17/1108500203505.html SMH Travel] - Retrieved 20 March 2008