Wishart

Wishart is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Wishartis a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Originally named by Queensland Place Names Board 1 August 1967. Name and boundaries confirmed by Minister for Survey and Valuation, Urban and Regional Affairs 11 August 1975. Boundaries altered by the Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, 22 April 2005. Named after an early European settler, ??? Wishart ( - ), first used as a suburb name around 1967.

Newnham Road in Wishart was originally part of a stock route from farming areas south of Brisbane to the Cannon Hill saleyards. The land beside Newnham Road was eventually developed into small farming blocks, reducing the width of the stock route to that of a normal road, but it was still used occasionally by travelling stock until the 1960s. As Brisbane grew the suburb was subdivided for residential blocks.