Selwyn, Queensland

Selwyn is located approximately 100 kilometres south of Cloncurry and has also been known as Mount Elliot after the mine nearby. The town got its name from the Selwyn ranges, named after Victorian Government Geologist A.R.C Selwyn. 

Walking through the town you see remains of the terminating railway that travelled from Cloncurry through Malbon and Kuridala. Very little remains of what was a thriving mining town that was surveyed in 1910, a few bits and pieces left us with enough imagination of what life was like for people out here. Selwyn had a population of 1,000 people in 1913, which then grew to 1,500 in 1918, the population declined in later years seeing its last residents in the 1970s. In its prime the town had four hotels, a post office, bakery, three general stores, four fruiterers, a butchery, hairdresser, school, police station, hospital, bank and the terminating rail station. The last building standing in Selwyn was the post office, which closed their doors unofficially in 1975.