Aldershot

History

The Queensland Smelting Company named the town after Aldershot in England. Aldershot Post Office opened on 1 September 1892 and closed around 1920. Aldershot State School opened in 1894. It had closed by 1911, when tenders were called to relocate the school buildings to Maryborough West and the teacher's residence to Gayndah.

Geography

The Bruce Highway passes through from south to north-west. The North Coast railway line forms part of the southern boundary and then passes through the locality and town from south to north. Aldershot railway station is an abandoned railway station on the line (). Saltwater Creek, a tributary of the Mary River, runs through the locality from west to east, passing south of the town.

Most-observed species

• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  556
• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  554
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  487
• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  483
• Rainbow Lorikeet

  Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) · Aves
  475
• Brown Honeyeater

  Lichmera indistincta (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) · Aves
  465
• Pacific Black Duck

  Anas superciliosa J.F.Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  435
• Australian Ibis

  Threskiornis molucca (Cuvier, 1829) · Aves
  404