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Biggenden is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Biggenden had a population of 788 people.



Biggenden is on the Isis Highway 287 kilometres (178 mi) north-west of the state capital Brisbane, and 85 kilometres (53 mi) west of Maryborough.



The name is derived from the Kabi word bigindhan meaning a place of stringybark.

Biggenden was founded in 1889 as a service centre to the short-lived goldrush towns of Paradise and Shamrock; and for coach passengers travelling west from Maryborough. The township, including the intriguingly named Live And Let Live Inn, moved to a new location alongside the railway station when the rail line arrived in 1891. Biggenden Post Office opened on 16 May 1891.



Biggenden Provisional school opened on 9 May 1892 becoming Biggenden State School in 1900. In January 1953, the school experimented with offering high school subjects by correspondence. In 1958, a secondary school section was added.

The Biggenden Methodist Church opened on Monday 23 May 1910. In 1939, a church hall was established, using the Methodist Church building established in Woowoonga in 1919, which had formerly been the Methodist church in Mount Perry, built in 1872. In 1977 through the amalgamation that created the Uniting Church in Australia, it became Biggenden Uniting Church.

In June 1926, a meeting of local women decided to establish a branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association. In October 1928, the Biggenden branch's building was officially opened by J.C. Robertson, chairman of the Degilbo Shire Council.
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