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Spring Hill is an inner suburb of Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
, Australia
Australia

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 located 2 km north of the central business district
Brisbane central business district

The Brisbane central business district , or 'the City' is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia and is located on a point on the northern bank of the Brisbane River....
. Parts of Spring Hill can be considered to be extensions of the Brisbane CBD.

Shafston College
Shafston college

Shafston College is located in Brisbane, Australia and is a tertiary institution which has several diploma programs and English language programs....
 has a campus in Spring Hill. The Inner-Northern Busway
Inner-Northern Busway, Brisbane

The Inner Northern Busway is a shorter, 4.7km long counterpart to the South-East Busway, Brisbane. Its completion in 2008 allowed buses to travel north/south through the Brisbane central business district without encountering car traffic....
 serves the suburb via the Normanby bus stop.

Windmill in Wickham Park
Wickham Park, Brisbane

Wickham Park is on Wickham Terrace, Brisbane in Spring Hill, Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia,Wickham Park is located next to the Roma Street Parkland in the section of the parkland which used to be called Albert Park, Brisbane....
 was built when Brisbane was a penal colony and originally milled grain and then used as a gallows for the colony.






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Spring Hill is an inner suburb of Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 located 2 km north of the central business district
Brisbane central business district

The Brisbane central business district , or 'the City' is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia and is located on a point on the northern bank of the Brisbane River....
. Parts of Spring Hill can be considered to be extensions of the Brisbane CBD.

Shafston College
Shafston college

Shafston College is located in Brisbane, Australia and is a tertiary institution which has several diploma programs and English language programs....
 has a campus in Spring Hill. The Inner-Northern Busway
Inner-Northern Busway, Brisbane

The Inner Northern Busway is a shorter, 4.7km long counterpart to the South-East Busway, Brisbane. Its completion in 2008 allowed buses to travel north/south through the Brisbane central business district without encountering car traffic....
 serves the suburb via the Normanby bus stop.

Attractions

Wickham Park 2
The Windmill in Wickham Park
Wickham Park, Brisbane

Wickham Park is on Wickham Terrace, Brisbane in Spring Hill, Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia,Wickham Park is located next to the Roma Street Parkland in the section of the parkland which used to be called Albert Park, Brisbane....
 was built when Brisbane was a penal colony and originally milled grain and then used as a gallows for the colony. The Spring Hills Baths operated by the Brisbane City Council
Brisbane City Council

Brisbane City Council is the governing City council for Brisbane, which is the capital of Queensland, Australia. Unlike councils in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, where the local councils are generally responsible for relatively small areas of those cities, Brisbane City Council administers the larger part of the Brisbane metropolit...
 are the oldest public baths in Queensland.

Spring Hill has a vibrant nightlife and is, along with adjacent Fortitude Valley, known for its gay community, live music scene and art galleries.

Geography


History

Spring Hill was so named in the nineteenth century because the hill on which the suburb was built was the source of the creek that was Brisbane's first fresh water supply.

Spring Hill is one of the oldest residential neighbourhoods in Brisbane, with many houses dating from the nineteenth century. As an example, some of the house lots in Sedgebrook Street were surveyed in the 1870's. However, in recent decades much of the older residential and commercial structures have been demolished to be replaced by modern office blocks and apartment buildings.

Between 1903 and 1947 tram
Tram

A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railroad car, of lighter weight and construction than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within, close to, or between villages, towns and/or cities, on tracks running primarily on streets....
s ran up Edward Street and along Leichhardt Street to Gregory Terrace. This tram line, operated by the Brisbane City Council
Brisbane Transport

Brisbane Transport is a business unit of Brisbane City Council, operating suburban and urban area bus services under the TransLink integrated public transport scheme in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia....
, was the steepest in Australia, with a maximum gradient of 1 in 8. After its closure the trams were initially replaced with diesel
Diesel

Diesel or diesel fuel in general is any fuel used in diesel engines. The most common is a specific fractional distillation of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid or gas to liquid diesel, are increasingly being developed and adopted....
 buses, but in 1951 these were replaced by a trolley-bus service. This was in turn replaced by diesel buses in 1968. The Brisbane City Council continues to provide bus services to the suburb.

The suburb was also served by trams along Boundary street and St Pauls Terrace, with this service being replaced by buses in 1969.

See also

  • List of Brisbane suburbs
    List of Brisbane suburbs

    This is a list of the 188 Suburbs and localities of Brisbane. AAcacia Ridge, Queensland -Albion, Queensland -Alderley, Queensland -Algester, Queensland -...