Woodstock, Queensland

Woodstock is a small rural community and suburb 40km west in the Rural area of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The Woodstock Shopping Centre has a local shop, restaurant, cafe, news agent, service station, bank and post office. Woodstock also has a 2 local schools, The Woodstock State School, with Prep and grades 1 to 7 (There is a new prep building as the old preschool burnt down near Christmas 2004) plus The Majors Creek State School, again with Prep and Grades 1 to 7. [http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&safe=off&cr=countryAU&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Majors+Creek&near=Townsville+QLD&fb=1&view=text&latlng=10237679259560244035]

Just up the road from the school is the Woodstock Community Hall, this is used for CWA meetings and many other functions like stalls and markets to bingo and parties.

There is a small Power Station at Woodstock to boost power to the area and it feeds into the Kelso sub station in the Upper Ross area of Townsville.

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Woodstock is home to many types of sports, from the Woodstock Ponyclub, Motocross/Rally track.The Pony club grounds are also used on some Friday and Saturday nights as a night club. The Woodstock Motocross/Rally track holds events most weekends and is well know Queensland wide. [http://www.townsvillemcc.net/]
There is also Sky Diving or you can have a plane ride tour of the area.

Transport

Woodstock's main centre is located on the on the Flinders Highway where the Woodstock-Giru Road and the old Flinders Highway meet the currant Flinders Highway.
Local school bus's run from Reid River to Woodstock and from Toonpan to Woodstock during schools days taking the local children to the Woodstock School and another local bus runs from Reid River to William Ross High School for the High school Children.Woodstock has it's own Airport, listed as Woodstock Airport it is better known as Donnington Airpark.

Mining

Calcium is the name of a suburb in the Woodstock area and is the main industry site of the area, they mine for Calcium and lime.

History

Woodstock and its large surrounding area was in Thuringowa until in 1997, when a major alteration in local government boundaries took place, that seen this part of Thuringowa become Townsville.

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