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Townsville Showground, Heritage-listed exhibition ground in West End, Queensland, Australia.

Townsville Showground is a heritage-listed exhibition ground at 72–104 Ingham Road in West End, Townsville. Its structures date from the mid-1890s to the 1970s and include exhibition halls, a 1901 grandstand, a show ring, poultry and livestock pavilions, a dairy, stabling and marshalling areas, gates, turnstiles and Curley Bell stands.

The North Queensland Pastoral and Agricultural Association formed in June 1876 and held the first Townsville Show in 1880 in the Botanical Gardens reserve. A deed of grant for 10 acres on Flinders Street West, later Ingham Road, was issued in January 1881, and the first show on the new ground followed in 1882. The grounds were expanded in 1888 to over 30 acres by taking in the Manure Depot and Pound Reserve.

The showground's name comes from the annual Townsville Show, first held in 1880 in the Botanical Gardens reserve before moving to this site in 1882. Exhibits have long included cookery, needlework, millinery and schoolwork alongside stud stock, wool, coffee and minerals, and country judges were chosen from across Queensland from 1890.

The showground sits at 72–104 Ingham Road in West End, on a site of over 30 acres (12.14 ha) that grew from a 10-acre grant of 1881. Entry is through gates and turnstiles, and the flat, even ground makes walking between the exhibition halls, the 1901 grandstand, the show ring and the livestock pavilions straightforward.

During wartime, the grounds were converted into a military facility, a transformation that left traces visible in its layout and structures. This dual history connects the region's agricultural heritage with its role in national defense.

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