Woodend

Woodend is an inner suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.

Woodend is an inner suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. At the 2016 census the population of Woodend was 1,302 people.

The origin of the suburb name is from the name given to the residence of Arthur Macalister, a Scottish migrant who became the second Premier of Queensland.Woodend claims a few firsts for the Ipswich area:

In 1848 Woodend Pocket was the first coal-bearing crown land in the Ipswich area to be subdivided into small 'coal allotments

In 1854 Englishman John Ferrett opened the first successful Ipswich coal mine in the Woodend area (The Radstock Pit)

In 1862 John Panton grew the first cotton in Ipswich in the Woodend area

One of Ipswich's first schools was opened by Daniel McGrath, 1847 in the Woodend area.Following its early days as coal lots, the Woodend area was mostly cleared of bush by the 1860s.Woodend became a middle class suburb with a residential heritage.Woodend became home to:

Ipswich Grammar School, 1863

St Mary's Convent School, established in 1863

Saint Mary's College in 1946.At the 2016 census the population of Woodend was 1,302 people.