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Suburb profile: Chapel Hill

17 July 2010

About Chapel Hill

The church at the Corner of Chapel Hill Road and Moggill Road in the Brisbane suburb of Chapel Hill

The church at the Crn of Moggill Road and Chapel Hill Road has been a landmark since 1875

Chapel Hill is a suburb that lies between the suburbs of Indooroopilly to the east and Kenmore to the west in Brisbane’s leafy western suburbs.

There is some debate about the origins of the suburb’s name. Was the suburb named after the chapel that was built on the hill at the corner of Moggill Road and Chapel Hill Road or was it named after a place called Chapel Hill in England? Perhaps a bit of both as the chapel on the hill in this Chapel Hill was a landmark for people travelling west along Moggill Road and perhaps some of the original settlers came from Chapel Hill in England.

Chapel Hill is located approximately 8 kilometres from Brisbane’s CBD. It is a bushland suburb which borders the native forests of the lower western slopes of Mount Coot-tha to the north.

Real Estate in Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill is a suburb of modern, large family homes. Some recent town house and small lot development over the past decade has added to the choice of dwellings in the suburb. However, the majority of homes in Chapel Hill are on large blocks – some with swimming pools and outdoor living spaces.

The pool at 36 Fawkner Street Chapel Hill property for sale with Liza McKilliam

Many homes in Chapel Hill have inground swimming pools like this one at 36 Fawkner Street, Chapel Hill. Click on image to see houses for sale with Liza McKilliam.

More recently, many of the homes built in the area during the 1970s and 80s have had serious renovations to modernize and make the homes more environmentally sustainable.

The median price for homes in Chapel Hill as at the March quarter 2010 was $665,000 according to the Real Estate Institute of Queensland’s data.

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Transport and other services in Chapel Hill

Moggill Road is the main arterial road to the suburb. It connects to Indooroopilly Shoppingtown, Toowong Village and Brisbane city. The Western Freeway and Milton Road is the other major access to Brisbane’s CBD.

Brisbane City Council buses service the suburb with express buses running to Indooropilly and Brisbane city.

The nearest major shopping centres are at Kenmore and Indooroopilly Shoppingtown with over 250 shops including supermarkets, major retailers and specialty shops.

The Kenmore Tavern is the local pub and bottle shop and there are plenty of restaurants and cafes in and around Kenmore which is a stone’s throw from Chapel Hill.

The Uniting Church on the corner of Moggill Road and Chapel Hill Road is the only church in the suburb. It was originally built in 1875. The existing church was built in the 1950s.