19-456: Oxley may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Australian Capital Territory [ edit ] Oxley, Australian Capital Territory is a suburb of Canberra, Australia Queensland [ edit ] Oxley, Queensland is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia Oxley railway station, Brisbane serves the suburb of Oxley Electoral district of Oxley (Queensland)
38-498: A 'mini city centre'. Group centres are commercial and community centres smaller than town centres but larger than local shops which are designed to serve a "group" of suburbs – typically about four or five. A typical group centre contains such local commercial facilities such as a supermarket, a petrol station, specialty stores such as a pharmacy, hairdresser, butcher, baker, deli, health food store , betting agency and medical centre. Some larger group centres may also contain banks,
57-417: A few restaurants and fast food outlets. They will typically also contain recreational and social facilities such as a swimming pool, church, and a tavern or club. These are intended to provide "weekly shopping" type services to the residents of adjoining suburbs. The suburbs of Mitchell , Fyshwick and Hume are Australian Capital Territory's industrial areas and are located away from suburbs. While they are
76-507: A policy of ridges and valleys where the urban areas were located in valleys, separated by ridges, containing nature parks. There are nineteen districts in the Australian Capital Territory, each is divided into between eight and 25 suburbs, but on average about eighteen. Australian Capital Territory's Plan also contains districts located outside of the urban areas for the purposes of land administration . Following
95-643: A tributary of the Tweed River, New South Wales Victoria [ edit ] Oxley, Victoria is a town in North East Victoria, Australia Canada [ edit ] Oxley, Ontario community in Essex, Ontario New Zealand [ edit ] Port Oxley was the original name for Otago Harbour in Dunedin, New Zealand United Kingdom [ edit ] Oxley, Wolverhampton
114-752: Is a suburb of Wolverhampton, England Oxley Green hamlet in Essex, England Oxley Woods is a housing development in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire Oxleys Wood is a nature reserve in Hertfordshire Oxley is a former name of the Abbey river in Surrey Other uses [ edit ] Oxley (surname) Oxley High School , a school located in Tamworth, NSW, Australia Oxley College (disambiguation) , for disambiguation of
133-558: Is contained within its boundaries; as is the Canberra Theatre and Playhouse , Territory Courts, and the Federal Court . Outside Canberra's central business district, there are five town centres within Australian Capital Territory. As well as serving as commercial nodes, town centres also serve as centres of employment. Most contain at least one major Australia government department. For example: As of 2013 , neither
152-557: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Oxley, Australian Capital Territory Oxley (postcode 2903) is the smallest suburb in Canberra . It is located in the district of Tuggeranong . The suburb is named after the explorer John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (1783 to 1828), who explored parts of New South Wales . It was gazetted on 22 March 1982 and first settled in 1985. Streets are named after social reformers and
171-818: The ACT Government and all districts and the land contained within are now administered subject to the Districts Act 2002 (ACT). In chronological order of mass development, the districts are: Canberra's central business district , also known as Civic, is the main commercial centre in Canberra. It is larger than the town centres and contains many Australian Government department offices, large office buildings and retail outlets such as department stores and specialty stores and recreational facilities such as cinemas, bars, nightclubs, restaurants and theatres. The Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
190-550: The Silurian period. This article on the geography of the Australian Capital Territory is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Suburbs of Canberra The suburbs of the Australian Capital Territory are organised into a hierarchy of districts, town centres, group centres, local suburbs and other industrial areas and villages. While these divisions have no formal role in
209-589: The Weston Creek Centre nor the Gungahlin Town Centre contain any substantive Australian government department head office. Town centres also provide services such as mechanical workshops, gyms, pubs and clubs, cinemas, restaurants and fast food outlets, petrol stations and car dealerships. They also usually contain a public library, police station and a community centre. The Woden Town Centre has high rise office buildings and resembles
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#1732776829960228-664: The centre of suburbs, Australian Capital Territory lacks strip shopping along major roads and appears to be 'empty' to most visitors. In the older areas, major roads are lined with houses, and in the newer areas they are typically landscaped with mounds of earth and vegetation to form 'parkways'. Australian Capital Territory's districts were developed with the intention of being semi-self-contained satellite cities with an intended population of about 80,000 people. The districts contain town centres which serve as commercial, transport and employment nodes. The districts are separated by nature reserves, and in most cases were designed according to
247-605: The colleges Sarbanes–Oxley Act , a 2002 act of U.S. Congress 38 Oxley Road Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Oxley . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxley&oldid=1242317412 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Educational institution disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
266-406: The governance or administration of the city, they formed a basis for the planning and development of the city and are significant to the city's commercial and social activities. For a complete list, see List of the Australian Capital Territory suburbs Most suburbs of the Australian Capital Territory are designed around local shops, centrally located within walking distance of the outer parts of
285-458: The location of light industry (Australian Capital Territory has no heavy industries), they also contain a large number of retail outlets such as furniture stores, hardware stores, car dealerships, bicycle shops, camping stores and wholesale outlets. The Australian Capital Territory also contains a number of smaller villages located outside the urban area. Historically some of these are farming or forestry villages and some were damaged or destroyed in
304-456: The suburb has an area of 1.08 km . It is next to the suburbs of Greenway , Wanniassa and Monash and is bounded by Drakeford Drive, Taverner Street and Erindale Drive. Deakin Volcanics green grey, purple and cream rhyolite occurs over most of the suburb and Deakin Volcanics green grey and purple rhyodacite is found in the far south east corner. These rocks are from 414 mya in
323-455: The suburb. Consequently, they are generally smaller in size to the suburbs of other cities. A typical Australian Capital Territory suburb is bounded on all sides by major roads, and at the centre, contains local shops, or at least a local store. Some also contain a petrol station, a church , or other community facilities. Many also contain a primary school and a preschool. As a result of these commercial and community facilities being located in
342-772: The transfer of land from the Government of New South Wales to the Commonwealth Government in 1911, eighteen original districts were established in 1966 by the Commonwealth via the gazettal of the Districts Ordinance 1966 No. 5 (Cth) which, after the enactment of the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 (Cth), became the Districts Act 1966 No. 5 (ACT). This Act was subsequently repealed by
361-660: Was a Queensland Legislative Assembly seat southwest of Brisbane Division of Oxley is an electoral division for the Australian House of Representatives Oxley Creek , a creek in Brisbane New South Wales [ edit ] Oxley, New South Wales is a village on the lower Lachlan River, Australia Electoral district of Oxley (New South Wales) is a northern New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral district Oxley Highway crosses northern New South Wales, Australia Oxley River ,
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