Cawdor, Queensland
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| Coordinates: 27°28′08″S 151°54′53″E / 27.4688°S 151.9147°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Queensland | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 8.2 km2 (3.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 420 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 51.2/km2 (132.7/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 4352 | ||||||||||||
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Cawdor is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the 2021 census, Cawdor had a population of 420 people.[1]
The locality takes its name from the former Cawdor railway station, named by the Queensland Railway Department to be named after a character from William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth.[2][3]
Cawdor Provisional School opened in October 1893.[4] It had become Cawdor State School by 1897.[5] It closed in 1951.[6] It was on a 2-acre (0.81 ha) land parcel at 149 Cawdor Drive (27°28′11″S 151°55′09″E / 27.4696°S 151.9191°E).[7]
