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    The Shire of Highfields is a former local government area on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. It existed between 1879 and 1949. On 11 November...
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    Highfields is a town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Highfields had a population of 8...
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    between Highfields Division's subdivisions Nos. 1 and 2 and Esk Division. With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, Esk became a Shire on 31 March...
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    passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, Highfields Division became the Shire of Highfields on 31 March 1903. On 25 January 1913, the Shire of Crows Nest...
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    renamed the Shire of Gatton. On 19 March 1949 it grew to incorporate part of the former Shires of Drayton and Highfields, while losing some of its original...
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    this part of the village. Bourn Brook and the route of the former Oxford and Cambridge Railway run to the south of the village. Highfields Caldecote is...
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    The Shire of Pine Rivers was a local government area about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Brisbane in the Moreton Bay region of South East Queensland...
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    whilst in the same year Crows Nest became a shire, and in 1914, Cambooya followed. On 19 March 1949, Highfields and Drayton were abolished, with their land...
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    by Arthur Martin & Co. Despite the use of the Highfields name, the estate is not within present day Highfields but is predominantly within present day...
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    business under the name of A&D Munro. Munro was chairman of the Highfields Divisional Board from 1888 to 1913, and of the Highfields Shire Council from 1915...
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    Mount Kynoch, Queensland (category Lists of coordinates)
    chairman of the Shire of Highfields. In the 2016 census, Mount Kynoch had a population of 237 people. In the 2021 census, Mount Kynoch had a population of 271...
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    major reorganisation of local government in South East Queensland, Toowoomba grew its area to include parts of the Shires of Highfields and Drayton. In 2006...
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    The Shire of Granville is a former local government area in the Wide Bay–Burnett area of Queensland, Australia. On 11 November 1879, the Tinana Division...
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  • of Nillumbik) Eltham North 3095 (Shared with Shire of Nillumbik) Greensborough 3088 (Shared with Shire of Nillumbik) Apollo Parkways Grace Park Green Hills...
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    evictions staged at Glencalvie, Ross-shire in 1845. A Gaelic-language poem denouncing Gillanders for the brutality of the evictions was later submitted anonymously...
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    Somerville, Victoria (category Suburbs of the Shire of Mornington Peninsula)
    of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area. Somerville recorded a population of...
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    became Shire of Caboolture on 31 March 1903. On 22 February 1912, part of the Shire of Caboolture was split away and was proclaimed as the Shire of Landsborough...
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    Highfield is the name given to the ward and suburb of Burntwood in the Lichfield District in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is one of the six...
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    the Shire of Windsor. On 10 February 1904, the shire was proclaimed the Town of Windsor. On 1 October 1925, the town was amalgamated into the City of Brisbane...
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  • Highfield is a neighbourhood district in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. It was constructed on a green field site as part of the construction...
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    River Cole, West Midlands (category Lists of coordinates)
    Local Nature Reserve part of the Shire Country Park. 2005 commemorated the 50th anniversary of the release of The Lord of the Rings. Ronald and his brother...
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    the shire's first chairman, John von Stieglitz, originated. Prior to its proclamation as a city on 1 January 1986, Thuringowa was a large rural shire, almost...
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    the village. The village contains the former hamlets of Hepthorne Lane, Hillyfields, Highfields and Church Hill. The Hepthorne Lane area is still called...
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  • Thumbnail for Beaudesert Shire
    The Shire of Beaudesert was a local government area located in South East Queensland, Australia, stretching from the New South Wales border, along the...
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  • Blue Mountain Heights, Queensland (category Suburbs of Toowoomba)
    Harlaxton State School in Harlaxton to the south and Highfields State School in neighbouring Highfields to the north. The nearest government secondary schools...
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    Bergen, Queensland (category Lists of coordinates)
    School (to Year 10) in Crows Nest to the east and Highfields State College (to Year 12) in Highfields to the south. The Bergen Djuan Cemetery is on Bergen...
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    the Shire of Bundanba, part of the Shire of Walloon and all of the Shire of Purga an enlarged Shire of Rosewood by including part of the Shire of Walloon...
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    HMAS Tobruk was granted the Right of Freedom of Entry to the City of Lake Macquarie on 9 August 1991. The Shire of Lake Macquarie was proclaimed on 6...
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    Meringandan West, Queensland (category Lists of coordinates)
    school is Highfields State Secondary College in Highfields to the south-east. Lilyvale Oval was once used for an annual rodeo hosted by the P&C of Meringandan...
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  • Thumbnail for Shire of Cooloola
    The Shire of Cooloola was a local government area located about 170 kilometres (106 mi) north of Brisbane – the state capital of Queensland, Australia...
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