EDMONTON, QUEENSLAND

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A sugar milling town, Edmonton is now and outlying suburb of Cairns, to it south.
Location: 13 km south of Cairns.
Origin of name: it was first called Hambledon Junction because of its proximity to the Hambledon sugar plantation and mill. In 1911 Queensland Railways changed the name of the settlement from Hambledon Junction to Edmonton in Middlesex, England. The irony is that even today the name Hambledon persists. The local school is Hambledon State School, the hotel is Hambledon Hotel and the mill is still Hambledon Mill.
Brief history: Hambledon, as it was first known, was established in October 1881, when Thomas H. Swallow took up land which would eventually constitute a plantation of 6000 acres - 900 acres for sugar cane, 100 acres for bananas, 20 for pineapples and 20 for citrus trees.
Built features: Sugarworld Tourist Park
Heritage features: Hambledon Mill