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Keysbrook, Western Australia
Keysbrook is an outer southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale along the South Western Highway. It was first established as a railway siding on the South Western Railway South Western Railway Limited, trading as South Western Railway (SWR), is the British state-owned train operating company that took over the services of the South Western Railway (2017–2025), operator of the same name from FirstGroup and MTR ... in 1897, and is believed to have been named after Charles Key (1847–1885), who leased land in the area. The townsite was gazetted in 1916, and the locality was established in 1997. References Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale {{PerthAU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth, Western Australia
Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The Extremes on Earth#Other places considered the most remote, world's most isolated major city by certain criteria, Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of Perth metropolitan region, Perth's metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River, upon which its #Central business district, central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth was founded by James Stirling (Royal Navy officer), Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. The city is situated on the traditional lands of the Whadju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Dandalup, Western Australia
North Dandalup is a small town in the Peel region of Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ... along the South Western Highway between Serpentine, Western Australia, Serpentine and Pinjarra, Western Australia, Pinjarra. Its Local Government Areas of Western Australia, local government area is the Shire of Murray. At the 2011 Australian Census, 2011 census, North Dandalup had a population of 346. History The name "Dandalup", a Noongar name relating to the rivers in the area, was shown on maps from 1835 onwards, but its meaning is unclear. When the Pinjarra to Picton Junction railway was joined to Perth in 1894, North Dandalup, near where the river of that name crossed the railway, was noted as a stopping place. Whittaker's timber railway ran from North D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Western Railway (Western Australia)
The South Western Railway, also known as the South West Main Line, is the main railway route between Perth and Bunbury in Western Australia. History ''South-Western Railway Act 1891'', an act by the Parliament of Western Australia assented to on 26 February 1891, authorised the construction of the railway line from Bayswater to Bunbury. Construction The South Western Railway was constructed for the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) by various private contractors from 1891. Among these was the engineer and magistrate Owen. Construction was completed in two parts. The first, East Perth to Pinjarra, was undertaken by William Atkins (former mill manager of the Neil McNeil company at the Jarrahdale Timber Station) and Robert Oswald Law (who built the Fremantle Long Jetty) from the end of 1891. Work began in 1892 but was slowed by difficulties with building the bridge over the Swan River. This section opened on 22 May 1893. The second phase of construction was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Western Highway
South Western Highway is a highway in the South West region of Western Australia connecting Perth's southeast with Walpole. It is a part of the Highway 1 network for most of its length. It is about long. Route description Perth to Bunbury From Perth, the highway, signed as State Route 20, starts from the Albany Highway junction in Armadale, 28 km from Perth, and follows a north–south route 20–30 km inland from the coast, passing through several agricultural and timber towns that sprang up in the 1890s when the nearby railway came through, such as Pinjarra, Waroona, Yarloop and Harvey. In January 2016, the Samson Brook bridge, one of the highway bridges near Waroona, was damaged by a bushfire. Just past Brunswick Junction, the highway heads southwest towards Western Australia's third-largest city, Bunbury. The typical scenery on this part of the highway includes small dairy farms and orchards, jarrah and marri remnant forests and pine plantations. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Serpentine-Jarrahdale
The Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale is a Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area in the outer southeastern List of Perth suburbs, metropolitan area of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, and has an area of and a population of 32,173 as at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Despite being named after two towns in the area, neither Serpentine, Western Australia, Serpentine nor Jarrahdale, Western Australia, Jarrahdale function as either the Shire's largest settlement (Byford, Western Australia, Byford) ''or'' the seat of government (Mundijong, Western Australia, Mundijong). History The Serpentine-Jarrahdale Road District was established on 8 August 1913 with the amalgamation of the Serpentine Road District (1894) and Jarrahdale Road District (1902). On 1 July 1961, it became a Shire following the passage of the ''Local Government Act 1960'', which reformed all remaining road districts into shires. On 17 June 1977, it acquired Byford from City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bannister, Western Australia
Bannister is a rural locality, predominately located within the Shire of Boddington in the Peel Region of Western Australia. A smaller part of the locality, located on the eastern side of the Albany Highway, is within the Shire of Wandering in the Wheatbelt region of the state. The locality is also home to the majority of the Boddington Gold Mine operations. Bannister is on the traditional land of the Wiilman people of the Noongar nation. The name Bannister was originally applied to another townsite between Williams and Narrogin, which was surveyed in 1844 but no subdivision was carried out and the reserve cancelled in 1910. The modern Bannister locality is named after the Bannister River. The site of the original police station house and coach house on Albany Highway is now occupied by the Riverside Roadhouse, which is a stop on the Transwa Transwa is Western Australia's regional public transport provider, linking 240 destinations, from Kalbarri in the north to Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwellingup, Western Australia
Dwellingup is a town in Western Australia located in a timber and fruitgrowing area in the Darling Range east-south-east of Pinjarra, Western Australia, Pinjarra. At the Census in Australia#2021, 2021 census, Dwellingup had a population of 524. Name Townsite lots were surveyed at this place by surveyor W.F. Rudall in 1909 after the Lands Department became aware that the site was planned as the terminus of the "Pinjarra-Marrinup Railway". Names suggested for the place by Rudall were "Dwellingerup" or "Marrinup", after nearby brooks, or "McLarty" after a local Member of the Legislative Assembly, MLA who had been very active concerning the railway (John McLarty, John or Edward McLarty). Surveyor General H.F. Johnston chose "Dwellingupp" after being misinformed regarding the spelling of Dwellingerup Brook. Ignoring a suggestion from the Under Secretary to amend the name to "Dwellingdown", the Minister for Lands approved the name as "Dwellingup" in December 1909. Eventually, the spelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meelon, Western Australia
Meelon is a small townsite in the Peel region of Western Australia, located between Pinjarra and Dwellingup within the Shire of Murray. At the 2011 census, Meelon had a population of 224. It was originally established as a saw-milling site by the local timber industry in the 1900s and was serviced by a siding on the Pinjarra-Narrogin railway. Following the decline of the industry in the 1950s, Meelon all but disappeared, and today primarily consists of medium-acreage farms which are dependent on Pinjarra for services. The Hotham Valley Railway The Hotham Valley Tourist Railway (commonly Hotham Valley Railway) is a heritage railway, tourist and heritage railway in the Peel (Western Australia), Peel region of Western Australia. The railway operates over a section of the original Pi ..., a tourist railway, passes through but does not stop in Meelon. The locality is home to two heritage-listed homesteads, the Kirkham House, also referred to as Riverdale and dating back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stake Hill, Western Australia
Stake Hill is a northeastern rural residential suburb of Mandurah, Western Australia. Its local government area is the Shire of Murray. On Stake Hill had a population of . History The suburb's name comes from (), a hill which is about north of the suburb. Stakehill Road runs around the north side of Stake Hill (the hill) in the Baldivis area but doesn't run south to Stake Hill, the suburb. The area was unpopulated until the 1960s, and settlement in two rural subdivisions took place in the 1990s. 2009 saw Stake Hill become much more accessible with the extension of the Kwinana Freeway towards Mandurah. Geography Stake Hill is bounded by the City of Rockingham border to the north, Mandurah Road to the west, Lakes and Lakelands Roads to the south and Gull Road to the east.2006 StreetSmart directory, Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth. The suburb consists of sparsely populated rural residential land with large (around ) lots separated by bushland buffers, with some wetland a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Darling Range
Darling Range is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust .... The district is based to the east and south-east of Perth. Geography Darling Range is situated in the outer east and south-east of Perth. It is a mixture of suburbia and hinterland, falling inside the Metropolitan Region Scheme and running along most of its southern and eastern boundary. The district covers all of the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale as well as the less urbanised parts of the city of City of Armadale, Armadale. History Darling Range was first created for the 1950 Western Australian state election, 1950 state election. The seat's first member was National Party of Australia (WA), Country MP Ray Owen (pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wandering, Western Australia
Wandering is a town located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately from the state capital, Perth, just off the Albany Highway. It is the main town in the Shire of Wandering. At the , Wandering had a population of 294. History The area's name appears to come from a local Aboriginal word, "wandooin", after the wandoo or white gum tree that is prevalent in the area, although some sources suggest it was named to recall the first sighting of wandering stock, and was originally applied to Wandering Brook, first recorded in 1866. Wandering was first settled in 1859 by members of the George Stedman Watts family when their straying wagon team horses were found grazing in lush grass around a fresh water spring known to this day as Horse Well. In 1861, they selected an area on what is now the south-eastern approach to the town, and named it "Grassdale". The property was owned by the Watts family until being purchased recently by another local farmer. A road boa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keralup, Western Australia
Keralup is a suburb straddling the southern boundary of the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia, on the eastern side of the Kwinana Freeway, and consists entirely of a government strategic landholding. The suburb's was chosen from a newspaper poll; it was proposed by local Nyoongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the South West, Western Australia, south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton, Western Aus ... leader, Trevor Walley, as it was the name of a pool in the Serpentine River in which he and his friends played as children. Proposed development In 1991, the state government's Department of Housing purchased Amarillo Farm, a large landholding in Keralup. In 1997, plans were announced for the land to be developed into a major satellite city of Perth, with an estimated population of 90,000 people. The development was initially named Amarillo an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
