Gailes

Gailes was a railway station name given in 1925 after the Western Gailes Golf Course in Scotland. The Librarian of the London County Council stated in 1978 that Gailes meant ‘overgrown with bog-myrth’. It replaced the earlier railway station name of Dingo Hill (1919) for the area which was formerly known as Pullen Pullen Flats.

The name Gailes was suggested by the wife of Dr. H. Byram Ellerton, superintendent of the Goodna Hospital and a founding member of the Goodna Golf Club at Dingo Hill in 1924, which changed its name to Gailes Golf Course in 1935.

Gailes became a suburb of Ipswich in 1959.