Cunningham, Queensland

Cunningham is a rural locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The Condamine River forms the north-eastern boundary of the locality.

[3] The Cunningham Highway enters the locality from the east (Wheatvale) and forms part of the southern boundary, before exiting to the south-west (Greymare / Montrose).

[4][5] There is a small urban centre on the Leyburn-Cunningham Road which features the Country Women's Association Memorial Hall at Cunningham Road,[6] a memorial park and the railway station.

[8] The locality is named after explorer and botanist Allan Cunningham who was the first European to see the lush pastures of the Darling Downs in 1827.

Memorial park, 2015
Memorial to Patrick Leslie, Cunningham, 2015
War memorial, Cunningham, 2015
Monument to local pioneering families, 2015