Carlisle is a

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separate ...

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, Western Australia. Its

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is the

town of Victoria Park The Town of Victoria Park is a local government area of Western Australia. It covers an area of 17.62 km² in metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It had a population of approximately 35,000 as at the 2016 Census. It l ...

History

The suburb known as Carlisle today was originally settled as part of a land allocation to early Western Australian settlers after 1829. Swan Location 35 was granted to Henry Camfield and Canning Location 2 was granted to James Macdermott, and these land allocations made up the suburb as well as many of the surrounding suburbs. Gallop, Dr G.br>"Know your Suburb: Carlisle and Lathlain"
PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2010. Despite several changes of land ownership in the area little development was made until after the 1890s. The neighbouring suburb of

Victoria Park Victoria Park may refer to: Places Australia * Victoria Park Nature Reserve, a protected area in Northern Rivers region, New South Wales * Victoria Park, Adelaide, a park and racecourse * Victoria Park, Brisbane, a public park and former golf ...

experienced rapid growth around this time that was mostly focused around Albany Road (later to become

Albany Highway Albany Highway links Western Australia's capital city Perth with its oldest settlement, Albany, on the state's south coast. The highway travels through the southern Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions, and is designated State Route ...

). This growth eventually spread East as part of the Bickford development. Bickford was a name chosen by real estate company Peet and Co (now Peet Limited) for the sale of residential land in the area. On 23 May 1919, a meeting of ratepayers in the area elected to change the name of the suburb to Carlisle. Bickford State School (renamed Carlisle Primary School in 1922) was opened in 1919, and this was followed by a Methodist church in 1927 and then a Catholic church in 1937. Other infrastructure soon followed.

Geography

Carlisle is bordered by

Orrong Road Orrong Road is a major arterial road servicing the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia as well as the south-eastern continuation of the Graham Farmer Freeway. It is a dual carriageway for its entire length, with multiple sets of traffic ...

to the north, Briggs/Planet/Kew streets to the east, Rutland Avenue and the Armadale railway line to the south, and Roberts Road to the west. The suburb is located within the "Bassendean Dunes" soil type of the

Swan Coastal Plain The Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia is the geographic feature which contains the Swan River as it travels west to the Indian Ocean. The coastal plain continues well beyond the boundaries of the Swan River and its tributaries, as a geol ...

and is mainly flat with occasional gentle undulations between its low areas in the west and its high areas in the east. The lowest point in Carlisle is 13.3m AMSL and located o
Bishopsgate St at Koolbardi Park
while the highest point is 27.1m AMSL and located near th
intersection of Raleigh Street and Briggs Street
Here, a minor ridgeline heads in a north/south direction connecting two other high points in Carlisle at 23.6m AMSL near th
intersection of Planet Street and Cohn Street
and 22.8m AMSL near th
intersection of Mars Street and Mercury Street
The last remaining high point at 21.6m AMSL is located in the west-end of the suburb near th
intersection of Weston Street and Archer Street
The high points in Carlisle offer glimpses of the nearby Perth CBD and Burswood skylines. Streets in Carlisle are constructed in the traditional grid formation representative of the early planning style of Perth. The typical width of a road reservation in Carlisle is 20m. The reservation consists of a footpath on at least one side (some streets have paths on both sides), a 4m wide landscaped verges and a 7m carriageway that can support on-street parking and the passing of vehicles. Most of the streets in Carlisle are lined with established trees. Common tree species for the suburb include: *

Lophostemon confertus ''Lophostemon confertus'' (syn. ''Tristania conferta''), is an evergreen tree native to Australia, though it is cultivated in the United States and elsewhere. Common names include brush box, Queensland box, Brisbane box, pink box, box scrub, and ...

(Queensland Box) - Archer St, Bishopsgate St, Mars St *

Jacaranda mimosifolia ''Jacaranda mimosifolia'' is a sub-tropical tree native to south-central South America that has been widely planted elsewhere because of its attractive and long-lasting violet-colored flowers. It is also known as the jacaranda, blue jacaranda, ...

- Raleigh St, Planet St, Roberts Rd, Oats St *

Agonis flexuosa ''Agonis flexuosa'' is a species of tree that grows in the south west of Western Australia. It is easily the most common of the ''Agonis'' species, and is one of the most recognisable trees of Western Australia, being commonly grown in parks an ...

(Weeping Peppermint) - Star St * Platanus acerifolia (London Plane) - Archer St * Callistemon vimnalis (Weeping Bottlebrush) - Bishopsgate St, Gemini Wy, *

Melaleuca saligna ''Melaleuca saligna'' is a shrub or tree in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) and is endemic to Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. It is a small tree with papery bark on the trunk, pendulous branches and white to greenish-yellow flowers between Febru ...

(Willow bottlebrush) - Planet St, Mars St * Melaleuca linarifolia (Snow in Summer) - Mars St *

Celtis australis ''Celtis australis'', the European nettle tree, Mediterranean hackberry, lote tree, or honeyberry, is a deciduous tree native to Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor. The tree was introduced to England in 1796.Hillier Nurseries Ltd. (19 ...

(European Nettle Tree) - Weston St *

Ficus microcarpa ''Ficus microcarpa'', also known as Chinese banyan, Malayan banyan, Indian laurel, curtain fig, or , is a tree in the fig family Moraceae. It is native in a range from China through tropical Asia and the Caroline Islands to Australia. It is wide ...

(Chinese Banyan) - Oats St *

Bauhinia purpurea ''Bauhinia purpurea'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar, and widely introduced elsewhere in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Common names include orchid tree, purpl ...

(Purple Orchard Tree) - Lion St

Facilities

The Perth–Armadale rail line runs through this area and the suburb is serviced by the Carlisle train station and the Oats Street train station. There are five parks: Fletcher Park, Carlisle Reserve, Parnham Park, Koolbardi Park and Millers Crossing. The Carlisle Hotel and TAB are opposite Carlisle train station. Other facilities include Holy Name Primary School, Lathlain Nursing Home, Windsor Park Nursing Home, Harold Hawthorne Seniors Centre, Town of Victoria Park Council Depot, and the City of Belmont Operations Centre.

Senior and tertiary education

Carlisle contains one

technical and further education Technical and further education or simply TAFE (), is the common name in English-speaking countries in Oceania for vocational education, as a subset of tertiary education. TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational cours ...

college, South Metropolitan TAFE – Carlisle Campus.

References

{{Town of Victoria Park suburbs Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the Town of Victoria Park