Lesmurdie is a suburb of

Perth 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 ...

, Western Australia, located within the

City of Kalamunda The City of Kalamunda is a local government area in the eastern metropolitan region of the Western Australian capital city of Perth about east of Perth's central business district. The area covers , much of which is state forest rising into ...

. It was established in 1897 by Archibald Sanderson, a politician and journalist, who began buying properties in the area from the

Canning Jarrah Timber Company The Canning Jarrah Timber Company was a timber and timber railway company operating in the Darling Range in Western Australia in the 1890s. The company was registered in London in 1898. It built the Upper Darling Range railway. The railway d ...

to build up a rural retreat and fruit-growing property. He named it after Lesmurdie Cottage, a shooting box near

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, Scotland that his father had rented. It was officially gazetted on 8 June 1959. The main access to the suburb from the

Swan Coastal Plain The Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia is the geographic feature which contains the Swan River as it travels west to the Indian Ocean. The coastal plain continues well beyond the boundaries of the Swan River and its tributaries, as a geol ...

is via Welshpool Road East, which snakes its way up the side of the

Darling Scarp The Darling Scarp (), also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north–south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia. The escarpment extends generally north of Bindoon, to ...

from the suburb of Wattle Grove. Lesmurdie can also be accessed from Kalamunda, Walliston, Carmel and Bickley, primarily through Canning Road. The shopping centres in the area are the Lesmurdie Village on Sanderson Road and the Lesmurdie Road Shopping Centre on the corner of Rooth Road and Lesmurdie Road. Lesmurdie has three high schools within its boundaries, the government operated Lesmurdie Senior High School as well as the privately operated Mazenod College for boys and St Brigid's College for girls. There are two government primary schools in Lesmurdie, Lesmurdie Primary School and Falls Road Primary School as well as a privately operated primary school at St Brigid's.

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* 275 Walliston to High Wycombe Station – serves Canning Road * 279

Kalamunda Bus Station Kalamunda bus station is a Transperth bus station located next to the Kalamunda Central shopping centre in Kalamunda, Western Australia. It has four stands and is served by eight Transperth routes operated by Path Transit and Swan Transit ...

to Maddington Central – serves Lesmurdie Road and

Welshpool Road Welshpool Road is a major arterial road running through the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia. Although the road is now split in two, having had its western and eastern sections disconnected due to the extension of Roe Highway, it r ...

* 281 Lesmurdie Senior High School to Darling Range Sports College – serves

* 282

Elizabeth Quay Bus Station Elizabeth Quay bus station, formerly the Esplanade Busport, is a Transperth bus station, located at the southern edge of the Perth (suburb), Perth CBD in Western Australia, next to the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre and Elizabeth Quay rail ...

– serves Canning Road, Grove Road, Rooth Road, George Road, Gladys Road and

* 283

– serves Lesmurdie Road and

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{{City of Kalamunda suburbs Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the City of Kalamunda

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