Blythewood is a rural
locality
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of the
Shire of Murray
The Shire of Murray is a local government area of Western Australia. It has an area of and is located in the Peel Region about south of the Perth CBD.
The Shire extends across the Peel Inlet and the Swan Coastal Plain into the Darling ...
in the
Peel Region of Western Australia.
The locality is on the traditional land of the
Pindjarup
The Bindjareb, Binjareb, Pindjarup or Pinjareb are an Indigenous Noongar people that occupy part of the South West of Western Australia.
Name
It is not clear if ''Pindjarup'' is the historically correct ethnonym for the tribe. After their di ...
people of the
Noongar
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 ...
nation. The Pindjarup language is now considered extinct but the Noongar people remain present in the region.
European settlement of the locality dates back to 1837 when land in the area was acquired by Captain R. G. Meares. Subsequently, purchased by John McLarty, the latter erected the Old Blythewood homestead between 1859 and 1861. The homestead, which also served as a hotel under the name of Pinjarra Arms Hotel in its early days, is now
state heritage-listed and open to visitors.
References
{{Shire of Murray towns
Shire of Murray