Junction Old York Road and Great Eastern Highway

York Road (currently known in parts as the ''Old York Road'') was the main road connecting

Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The nam ...

and

York York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a Yor ...

, in

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, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Its origins in a talk in 1929 claim an earlier name ''King Dick Road'', and the first settlers usage of the route being on 6 September 1831. It became, in the 20th century, portions of 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 ...

, and the portion of the road traversing 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 ...

at Greenmount was named the Old York Road. The re-aligned Great Eastern Highway removed some of the problems of the steep grades along the old alignment. The road name was also a truncation of the usage of the name ''Old York-Perth Road''. The York Road had convict era sites along its traverse. In the metropolitan area, Chippers Leap, Bilgoman Well, Mahogany Inn (still operating), and other sites have connections with that era, and the remaining original section on Greenmount Hill is still named ''Old York Road''.

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catalogue: - ''This project was initiated and co-ordinated by the Mundaring Arts Centre. It was a social history based project and involved 15 schools and a number of community groups within the Shire of Mundaring through the financial support supplied by a Department of Community Development Social Advantage Grant.'') see http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b2480392~S2 * Parker, Frank.(2006) ''The road to York : from Guildford to York Western Australia, an early history'' York, W.A. : Parker Print. * Smith, Jennifer (1992). ''Historic watering holes : a report for the National Trust of Australia (W.A.). Stage 2. The Old York Road, from Guildford to York, Western Australia'' Centre of Prehistory Nedlands, W.A : The University. * Tuckfield, Trevor (197-?) ''The Old York Road'', The Author {{Subject bar , auto=0 , portal1=Western Australia , portal2=Geography Roads in Western Australia Greenmount, Western Australia Historic trails and roads in Australia York, Western Australia

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