Lesmurdie is a suburb of

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, located within the

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. It was established in 1897 by

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, a politician and journalist, who began buying properties in the area from the

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to build up a rural retreat and fruit-growing property. He named it after Lesmurdie Cottage, a

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near

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, Scotland that his father had rented. It was officially gazetted on 8 June 1959. It is viewed as being a rival suburb to the neighbouring suburb of Kalamunda directly to the north. The main access to the suburb from the

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is via

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, which snakes its way up the side of the

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from the suburb of Wattle Grove. Lesmurdie can also be accessed from Kalamunda, Walliston, Carmel and Bickley, primarily through Canning Road. The shopping centres in the area are the Lesmurdie Village on Sanderson Road and the Lesmurdie Road Shopping Centre on the corner of Rooth Road and Lesmurdie Road. Lesmurdie has three high schools within its boundaries, the government operated

Lesmurdie Senior High School Lesmurdie Senior High School is a public co-educational high school in the suburb of Lesmurdie, Western Australia. History The school was established in 1981 and caters for students from Year 7 to Year 12. Enrolments at the school have been re ...

as well as the privately operated Mazenod College for boys and St Brigid's College for girls. There are two government primary schools in Lesmurdie, Lesmurdie Primary School and Falls Road Primary School as well as a privately operated primary school at St Brigid's.

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{{City of Kalamunda suburbs Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the City of Kalamunda

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