Glamorgan Vale, Queensland
locality in Queensland, Australia
Glamorgan Vale is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Glamorgan Vale had a population of 384 people.
Geography
Glamorgan Vale is in the Lockyer Valley, 57 kilometres (35 mi) west of the state capital, Brisbane.
The township itself is prone to flooding in times of extreme weather events as it borders the Black Snake Creek a tributary of the Brisbane River.
History
A Wesleyan Methodist church opened on Tarampa Road on Sunday 20 August 1871. It was described as a "well built slab building, on a good site, and will seat about a hundred persons". It was erected by local people.
Glamorgan Vale Post Office opened on 1 January 1872 and closed in 1972. Thomas Pratt from Somerset, England was the first postmaster.
Pratt also had the licence for the Glamorgan hotel from 1880 to 1895 and again from 1898 to 1899.
“Glamorgan Vale, Queensland” enters the record as locality in Queensland, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Glamorgan, Vale and Queensland can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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