Bickley is a suburb located within the City of Kalamunda, in

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, Western Australia. It is situated on the

Darling Scarp The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north–south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia. The escarpment extends generally north of Bindoon, to th ...

and is known for the brook of the same name. Before 1949 it was a stopping place on the

Upper Darling Range Railway The Upper Darling Range Railway (also known as the Upper Darling Range Branch) was a branch railway from Midland Junction, Western Australia, that rose up the southern side of the Helena Valley and on to the Darling Scarp via the Kalamunda Z ...

. It was originally known as "Heidelburg" or "Heidelberg", but during

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, Western Australian Government Railways and Tramways renamed it "Bickley" after a local pioneer Wallace Bickley. It has been the site of holiday and other sorts of camps. The

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and

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's Perth television transmission towers have been located there since the founding of television in Perth in 1959.

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, originally situated in West Perth is also currently located in Bickley. It is also one of the major meteorological stations within the Perth Metropolitan Area due to its length of time of operation and location on the Darling Scarp. It is also the location of water reservoirs.

Climate

Bickley has a

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(

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''Csa''), like the rest of Perth. Bickley has one of the highest average annual rainfalls for the Perth metropolitan region, and it experiences cooler nights than the rest of Perth, meaning that Bickley has a

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Climate

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