Jingalup is a town in the Great Southern region of

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located between the towns of Kojonup and Cranbrook. The town is located on Murrin Brook, which is a tributary of the

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. The area was explored by

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in 1846; he first recorded the name ''Jingalup''. The area was eventually opened to agriculture. By 1918 the local farmers requested that a townsite be declared, and proposed the name be Mybrup. A town hall which was also used as a school and a recreation ground had been built by 1922, and the community knew the area as Jingalup. The town was gazetted in 1924. The name is

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in origin and is a contraction of the name of a nearby

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, Kodjingalup Well.

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