Bexley Station (Queensland)


Bexley Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in Queensland.
The property is situated approximately north of Longreach and south of Muttaburra.
Established at some time prior to 1890 by Edward Goddard Blume, his paddocks were burnt out the same year with the loss of most feed and some fencing. The property was stocked with sheep, producing 68 bales of wool in 1892 and 71 in 1893.
Blume sold Bexley in 1939 to T. Scanlan. Blume sold the completely unstocked but retained the Yanburra portion of the property for himself.
The area was flooded in 1950 and then a plague of snakes with 27 snakes being found in the homestead. In 1953 the property was owned by W. G. Allen and his wife and two sons.
The property, owned by the McPherson family, was deluged during a storm in 2001 when a total of of rain fell duering a single storm that lasted nearly 24 hours.
In 2011 the property was still owned by Ross and Michelle McPherson.