Kingsthorpe

History

The town was named after pastoralist brothers Colonel Henry Venn King and George Beresford King, of the Gowrie pastoral property. St Gregory's Anglican Church in Meringandan was consecrated on Sunday 12 September 1886 by Bishop William Webber. It was located on a piece of land near the railway station, donated by Mr Foland. It was built by Mr Maag and was and could seat 150 people. In 1905 it was relocated to Kingsthorpe where it was re-consecrated at St Gregory's by Archbishop St Clair Donaldson on 20 October 1905. The church was closed circa 1982. Gowrie Mountain Provisional School opened on 30 May 1901, becoming Gowrie Mountain State School on 1 January 1909. It closed in 1967. It was on a site at 95 Gowrie Mountain School Road (), formerly within Gowrie Mountain but now within Kingsthorpe. Kingsthorpe State School opened on 10 July 1911. Kingsthorpe was in the Shire of Rosalie until 2008, when the shire was amalgamated into the new Toowoomba Region local government area.

Geography

Kingsthorpe is on the Darling Downs, north-west of the Toowoomba CBD and west of the state capital, Brisbane. Kingsthorpe railway station on the Western railway line serves the town (). Kings railway station is a closed station on that line on the boundary between the localities of Kingsthorpe and Kings Siding ().

Most-observed species

• Noisy Miner

  Manorina melanocephala (Latham, 1801) · Aves
  4,937
• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  4,495
• Torresian Crow

  Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 · Aves
  3,960
• Galah

  Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  3,645
• Magpie-lark

  Grallina cyanoleuca (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  3,618
• Rainbow Lorikeet

  Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) · Aves
  3,361
• Pale-headed Rosella

  Platycercus adscitus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  3,304
• Pied Currawong

  Strepera graculina (Shaw, 1790) · Aves
  3,196