Gabbadah is a locality within the

Shire of Gingin The Shire of Gingin is a local government area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, just beyond the northern fringe of the Perth metropolitan area. The Shire covers an area of and its seat of government is the town of Gingin. Hist ...

, located around 30 km north of

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metropolitan area's northern limit. ''Gabbadah'', an Aboriginal term meaning "mouthful of water", was the original name of the location where the

Moore River Moore River is a river in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. Geography The headwaters of the Moore River lie in the Perenjori, Carnamah and Dalwallinu Shires. The river then drains southwards through Moora, flows westerly before j ...

meets the

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. The area marks the southern extent of the

Yued Yued (also spelt Juat, Yuat and Juet) is a region inhabited by the Yued people, one of the fourteen groups of Noongar Aboriginal Australians who have lived in the South West corner of Western Australia for approximately 40,000 years. Europea ...

Noongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the so ...

country, with white settlement not occurring until 1905 where a 100-acre block owned by Henry Brockman, was made a reserve for picnicking and camping. A well and 3 cottages were built in 1907 and people were charged one shilling per week for the use of these cottages. The settlement continued to develop until it was regazetted as the town of Guilderton in 1951. Modern day Gabbadah is used to define the postcode boundary for the coastal region separating the towns of Guilderton and

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with the eastern limit marking the Moore River State Forest.

Indian Ocean Drive Indian Ocean Drive is a coastal highway in the Australian state of Western Australia which services the coastal communities along the Indian Ocean immediately north of the state capital Perth, linking the northern suburb of Yanchep with the Br ...

bisects the area in two, with the vast majority of the residential development occurring to the east in the form of two semi-rural residential estates. ''Redfield Park Estate'', the more northerly of the two, lies halfway between Indian Ocean Drive's turnoffs to

and Guilderton while ''Sovereign Hill Estate'' is situated just east after the latter turnoff (towards Perth). Two sand and limestone

quarries A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to reduce their envir ...

are located near the boundary with Guilderton. The two estates have a combined permanent population of 764 as of the . This technically makes Gabbadah the third most populated locality in the

(after Gingin itself and Lancelin) and is in fact more than twice the combined population of the two gazetted towns the locality separates.

References

{{Towns Wheatbelt South WA Coastal towns in Western Australia Shire of Gingin