A history by the Brisbane City Council's library services says it appears unnamed on surveyor John Oxley's map of 1823 but soldier Edmund Lockyer calls it Norman's Creek in 1825.

YOU don’t have to be a billionaire to live on Brisbane’s ‘brown snake’, but agents warn now is the time to get a bargain before it’s too late.

In Brisbane alone, he says, between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of residents live and work in the suburbs. “They get up from a suburban bed in a suburban home and they go to a suburban place of ...

From the gully of leeches to a 50-metre high fig tree, these are some of the things that inspired the names of Brisbane's suburbs.

Map of Brisbane, Queensland Credit: Google Maps. ... Suburbs with the lowest median values within a 10km radius of Brisbane CBD – July 2013. Houses . Rocklea: 9.2km, $298,796.

View Larger Map. SHERWOOD. THE Brisbane suburbs of Sherwood, Graceville and Chelmer are all located in a rather ominous dog-leg of the Brisbane River which creates a peninsular.