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Banyowla Regional Park
Banyowla Regional Park, formerly Kelmscott-Martin Regional Park, is a conservation park in the Perth Hills, 20 kilometres south-east of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Cities of City of Gosnells, Gosnells and City of Armadale, Armadale. The regional park was re-named in 2008 after Banyowla, who was a Noongar elder at the time of European settlement. Banyowla is one of eleven regional parks in the Perth region of Western Australia. The purpose of these regional parks is to serve as urban havens to preserve and restore cultural heritage and valuable ecosystems as well as to encourage sustainable nature-based recreation activities. History The concept of regional spaces in Western Australia open to the public was first proposed in 1955, when the Plan for the Metropolitan Region, Perth and Fremantle, Stephenson-Hepburn Report recommended preserving private land for future public use in what would become the Perth Metropolitan Region in 1963. The Environmental Protection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Gosnells
The City of Gosnells is a local government area in the southeastern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located northwest of Armadale and about southeast of Perth's central business district. The City covers an area of , a portion of which is state forest rising into the Darling Scarp to the east, and had a population of approximately 118,000 at the 2016 Census. The largest activity centre in the City is the Central Maddington shopping centre. District centres exist in the Gosnells town centre, Thornlie and Canning Vale. History The name Gosnells dates back to 1862 when Charles Gosnell who was the owner of London cosmetic company John Gosnell & Co., bought Canning location 16 from the Davis family who were the original grantees in 1829. While the purchase of the land was a personal investment by Charles Gosnell, when the land was sold to developers in 1903 the developers used the association to the well known cosmetic company, claiming it had bought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |