__NOTOC__ Glen Forrest is a suburb within the

Shire of Mundaring The Shire of Mundaring is a Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area in Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council, eastern metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia. The Shire covers an area of and had a popul ...

, south of

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, west of Mahogany Creek, east of

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, and north of the

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. Its northern boundary is determined by the

Great Eastern Highway Great Eastern Highway is a road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie. A key route for road vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wheatbelt and the Goldfields-Esperance, Goldfie ...

. The area was originally named Smith's Mill, after A. C. Smith & Son's

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saw mill, established in October 1877. In 1915 local residents petitioned to change the area's name to Glen Forrest, to honour Sir John Forrest, first Premier of Western Australia. The suburb is bisected by a disused railway track - the original route of the Eastern Railway - which is now known as the Railway Reserve Heritage Trail, and Nyaania Creek. It has a number of significant conservation reserves including the Glen Forrest Super Block, which is adjacent to Ryecroft Road (the main connecting road to Darlington). The major early industries were forestry, and the Stathams Brickworks, which had its own siding, just east of the railway yard. The brickworks was located on a patch of white clay that is now a park and recreation area. It has two commercial areas - one adjacent to and just north of the former railway station site, and the other at the intersection of Hardey Road and Great Eastern Highway. Like

to the west, Glen Forrest had at its earliest times a winery, Glen Hardey, on the valley edge down which Hardey Road passes.

Transport

Bus

* 320 Midland Station to Mundaring – serves

* 321 and 322 Midland Station to Glen Forrest – serve Ryecroft Road, Glen Forrest Drive, Tillbrook Street, Burkinshaw Road, Bilgoman Road, Marnie Road, McGlew Road, Statham Street and

* 328 Midland Station to Chidlow – serves

Gallery

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Notes

References

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External links

Glen Forrest
on

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Mundaring and Hills Historical Society website
{{Shire of Mundaring suburbs Suburbs and localities in the Shire of Mundaring Darling Range