Pickering Brook 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 ...
.
Prior to 1949 it was a stopping place on the
Upper Darling Range railway.
It was named after nearby Pickering Brook. The brook is named after an early settler, Captain Edward Picking whose name was sometimes recorded as Pickering. The suburb of Pickering Brook was officially created on 12 January 1973. Part of it was formerly known as Carilla.
Like nearby areas such as
Karragullen, Pickering Brook is primarily made up of various family-run orchards.
The suburb was seriously under threat in December 2001 from a bushfire.
In June 2008, the previously named Pickering Brook National Park associated with the locality was named
Korung National Park.
[Pamphlet ''Parks of the Perth Hills – Whats in a name?''issues by the Perth Hills District of DEC in June 2008, the name being after a Nyoongar elder at the time of European settlement – see also http://www.roleybushcare.com/bush-topics/109-new-aboriginal-names-for-regional-parks.html]
See also
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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 ...
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{{City of Kalamunda suburbs
Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia
Darling Range
Suburbs in the City of Kalamunda