Marybrook, Western Australia
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Marybrook is a rural
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of the
City of Busselton The City of Busselton is a local government area in the South West region of Western Australia, approximately south of Perth, the state capital. The city covers an area of and had a population of 40,640 as at the 2021 Census. It contains two ...
in the
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region of Western Australia, located on
Geographe Bay Geographe Bay is in the south-west of Western Australia, around southwest of Perth. The bay was named in May 1801 by French explorer Nicolas Baudin, after his ship, ''Géographe''. It is a wide curve of coastline extending from Cape Natur ...
. The City of Busselton and the locality of Marybrook are located on the traditional land of the
Wardandi The Wadandi, also spelt Wardandi and other variants, are an Aboriginal people of south-western Western Australia, one of fourteen language groups of the Noongar peoples. Name There are at least three theories about the meaning of the tribal et ...
(also spelled Wadandi) 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. Marybrook was established as a Group Settlement with the group number 144. The locality is home to the heritage-listed Marybrook farmhouse, a cottage dating back to the 1870s. It is thought to have been constructed for John Molloy, who died in 1867.


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{{Towns South West WA City of Busselton