Bexley Station (Queensland)

This article is about the pastoral lease in Australia. For the railway station in London, see Bexley railway station.

Bexley is located in Queensland
Bexley
Bexley
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Location in Queensland

23°11′44″S 144°19′30″E / 23.19548°S 144.32495°E / -23.19548; 144.32495 (Bexley)

Thoroughbred horses on Bexley Station ca. 1913
Section of the Bexley homestead buildings, ca. 1926

Bexley Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in Queensland.

The property is situated approximately 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of Longreach and 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of Muttaburra.

Established at some time prior to 1890 by Edward Goddard Blume, the paddocks were burnt out the same year with the loss of most feed and some fencing.[1] The property was stocked with sheep, producing 68 bales of wool in 1892[2] and 71 in 1893.[3]

Blume sold Bexley in 1939 to T. Scanlan. Blume sold the 39,800 acres (16,106 ha) completely unstocked but retained the 44,215 acres (17,893 ha) Yanburra portion of the property for himself.[4]

The area was flooded in 1950 and then a plague of snakes with 27 snakes being found in the homestead.[5] In 1953 the property was owned by W. G. Allen and his wife and two sons.[6]

The property, owned by the McPherson family, was deluged during a storm in 2001 when a total of 200 millimetres (8 in) of rain fell during a single storm that lasted nearly 24 hours.[7]

In 2011 the property was still owned by Ross and Michelle McPherson.[8]

  1. ^ "Muttaburra". Morning Bulletin. Rockhampton, Queensland. 24 September 1890. p. 5. Retrieved 15 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Barcaldine". Morning Bulletin. Rockhampton, Queensland. 20 January 1892. p. 6. Retrieved 15 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Stock, Station & Commercial". The Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts. Barcaldine, Queensland. 28 November 1893. p. 5. Retrieved 16 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Link With the 90's". The Longreach Leader. Queensland. 4 November 1939. p. 11. Retrieved 16 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Flood brings snake plague". The Central Queensland Herald. Rockhampton, Queensland. 2 November 1950. p. 25. Retrieved 17 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Many Guests At Bexley". Queensland Country Life. Queensland. 3 December 1953. p. 10. Retrieved 17 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Longreach deluged with 200mm falls". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 November 2001. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  8. ^ "Welcome to Desert Channels Queensland". Desert Channels Queensland. 2011. Archived from the original on 15 September 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.