Download coordinates as: Woodford is a rural town and locality in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.
[1] The town is noted for the Woodford Folk Festival that takes place over the New Year holidays.
[8] Dalla (also known as Dalambara and Dallambara) is a language of the Upper Brisbane River catchment, notably the Conondale Range.
Dalla is part of the Duungidjawu language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Somerset and Moreton Bay councils, particularly the towns of Caboolture]], Kilcoy]], Woodford and Moore.
[9] In 1841 the Archer brothers established Durundur Station along the Stanley River, near where Woodford now stands.
[10] In 1877, 10,800 acres (4,400 ha) were resumed from the Durundur pastoral run and offered for selection on 19 April 1877.
[11] Mr W. Yates was the first to take possession of his selected portion of the country and he built a hotel near a ford across the river.
[14] When the introduction of a regular mail service required the town to have an official name a meeting was called and McConnel was decided on in honour of the senior partner of Durundur Station ‑ but the Postmaster General would not accept that name.
[17][18] On 11 January 1930, a new Catholic church and school were officially opened by Archbishop James Duhig.
[19] St. Matthias' Anglican Church was dedicated on Sunday 28 February 1892 by Bishop William Webber.
The site on the northern bank of One Mile Creek and much of the cost of the building the church were donated by Messrs McConnel and Wood of Durundur Station.
The line reached Woodford in 1909 and connected the town to the small regional centre of Caboolture.
[28] Woodford Methodist Church was opened on Saturday 6 April 1912 by Reverend Henry Youngman.
The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 4.6%, England 3.4%, Netherlands 0.8%, Scotland 0.7%, Vietnam 0.4%.
74.7% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.7% Dutch, 0.3% German, 0.1% Filipino, 0.1% French, 0.1% Spanish.
The society has collected steam, diesel and petrol locomotives and rollingstock using the 2-foot gauge and has established their Durundur railway at Woodford as an operating heritage line.