East Rockingham is an

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within the Kwinana Industrial Area, part of

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, and located within the

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History

The suburb developed as a rural community in the 1850s when various pioneers took up land and settled in the area along Mandurah Road; however, the community declined following the opening of the port at Rockingham in 1872. The Rockingham Road Board's offices were located in East Rockingham between 1905 and 1929. The Stephenson- Hepburn Plan for Perth and Fremantle (1955) identified the strategic importance of the locality for industrial development. The suburb today contains various industrial developments, with

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making plans to release more land for industrial purposes. The Water Corporation intends to construct a wastewater treatment facility in East Rockingham. The suburb was named Challenger for a period between 1992 and 1996. It is home to two caravan parks.

Places of natural and cultural heritage significance

As of 2020, 113 places are heritage-listed in the City of Rockingham, of which seven are on the State Register of Heritage Places, with five of those located in East Rockingham. Significant places: * The Pines and Paradise (ruins, sites of farm cottages) * Mona's Mount ( Key Cottage) - farm cottage * Wheatfields - former farm cottage * Smirk's Cottage - former farm cottage * Sloan's Cottage - former farm cottage. * WW2 coastal defence bunker * East Rockingham School site * East Rockingham Roads Board office site * East Rockingham Pioneer Cemetery * Hymus house and dairy * Chesterfield inn (ruin) and dairy (ruin) * Woodbine (a.k.a. Bell's Cottage) ruin * Sam Chalwell's house site * Ellendale (a.k.a. Day Cottage) * Old Abattoir (ruin) * Lealholm (ruin) * Lake Cooloongup Flora and Fauna Reserve * CBH Grain Terminal East Rockingham Grain Terminal

Transport

Bus

* 548 Rockingham Station to Fremantle Station – serves

Patterson Road Patterson Road is a major road between Kwinana and Rockingham and is part of Australia's National Route 1 for part of its length. The first part goes through Kwinana's heavy industrial area. After the Ennis Avenue turnoff which takes H ...

* 549 Rockingham Station to Fremantle Station – serves Dixon Road

References

{{Suburbs of Rockingham Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the City of Rockingham