Glen Forrest
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Western Australia - Australia

Mundaring, Western Australia

Mundaring is a suburb located 34 km east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. The suburb is located within the Shire of Mundaring. The Aboriginal name of the area 'Mindah-lung', said to mean 'a high place on a high place', was anglicised to become 'Mundaring'. The Mundaring area is also considered to be part of the Perth Hills area.

Located at -31.897, 116.171 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.737 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, Australian Aboriginal placenames, Mundaring, Western Australia

Darlington, Western Australia

Darlington, Western Australia, is a locality in the Shire of Mundaring on the Darling Scarp, dissected by Nyaania Creek and north of the Helena River.

Located at -31.901, 116.081 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.732 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, Darling Range

Kalamunda Zig Zag

The Kalamunda Zig Zag was completed in 1891, as part of the Upper Darling Range Railway line in Western Australia which was built by the Canning Jarrah Timber Company to supply railway sleepers to Perth's growing railway system.

Located at -31.9397, 116.046 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.730 miles away.
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Rail transport in Western Australia, Darling Range, Gooseberry Hill, Western Australia

Swan View Tunnel

The Swan View Tunnel is a 340 m (1116 ft) railway tunnel located on the southern side of the Jane Brook valley at Swan View, Western Australia on the edge of the Darling Scarp. Currently inactive, due to its location within the John Forrest National Park the tunnel and its adjacent landscape are maintained in a conserved state. Prior to the construction of tunnels for the Mandurah line in 2004, the Swan View Tunnel was the only tunnel built for the Western Australian railway network.

Located at -31.8821, 116.071 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.732 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Perth, Western Australia, History of Western Australia, Tunnels in Western Australia, Railway tunnels in Western Australia, Tunnels completed in 1895, Swan View, Western Australia, Eastern Railway (Western Australia)

Glen Forrest, Western Australia

Glen Forrest is a suburb within the Shire of Mundaring, south of John Forrest National Park, west of Mahogany Creek, east of Darlington, and north of the Helena River. Its northern boundary is determined by the Great Eastern Highway. Originally known as Smiths Mill after a prominent founder citizen, it is currently named after the first Premier of Western Australia, Sir John Forrest.

Located at -31.91, 116.101 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.733 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, Darling Range

Blackboy Hill, Western Australia

Blackboy Hill, was named after the Xanthorrhoea preissii, which dominated the site and is now absorbed into Greenmount, Western Australia. Originally comprising a military camp, the facilities and adjacent structures were on the hill that is now utilised by St Anthony's Primary School and Church, and Greenmount Primary School.

Located at -31.897, 116.046 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.730 miles away.
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History of Western Australia, Military history of Australia during World War I, Military camps in Australia, World War I memorials in Australia, World War I sites in Australia, Buildings and structures in Western Australia

Swan View, Western Australia

Swan View is an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its Local Government Areas are the City of Swan and the Shire of Mundaring, and it is located 25 kilometres from Perth in an area known as the Perth Hills on the edge of the Darling Scarp, just to the west of the John Forrest National Park, east of Roe Highway and north of the Great Eastern Highway. The Brown Park community recreation ground is the location of the long standing annual Swan View Agricultural Show.

Located at -31.888, 116.049 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.731 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, Darling Range, Swan View, Western Australia

Boya, Western Australia

Boya is a locality on the Darling Scarp, in the Shire of Mundaring, Western Australia. On the south side of Greenmount Hill, and just west of Darlington. The name of Boya was not a local Aboriginal word, but was imposed by government officials in the early twentieth century.

Located at -31.914, 116.058 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.731 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia

Darlington Arts Festival

Darlington Arts Festival is a festival held annually in Darlington, Western Australia. The origins of the festival were in the 1950s, spawned from the relationship between the artists resident in Darlington and the local voluntary community fire brigade. One of the longest lasting community festivals in Perth, Western Australia the festival includes an art exhibition in the local historic Darlington Hall and a fair on the adjacent cricket oval.

Located at -31.9178, 116.075 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.732 miles away.
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Arts festivals in Australia, Culture in Western Australia

Darlington Hall

Darlington Hall is a heritage listed building in Darlington, Western Australia. The original structure was a built for the nineteenth century Darlington Winery in 1890 for Alfred Waylen and Josceline Amherst. It is now called Darlington Hall, and a part is home to the Darlington Club. The building is registered with the Western Australian Heritage Council. The original structure is known as the lesser hall, while the more recent larger section on the west side is the main hall.

Located at -31.9182, 116.075 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.732 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Perth, Western Australia, Heritage places of Western Australia

Mahogany Creek, Western Australia

Mahogany Creek is a suburb in the shire of Mundaring, Western Australia. Its name is derived from the historic Mahogany Creek Inn, constructed in about 1880, and situated on what was the York Road, now known as the Great Eastern Highway. The inn is heritage listed. Mahogany Creek is also the location of the steepest section of the Great Eastern Highway after Greenmount Hill. The suburb had a population of 763 in 1991, and in 1996 it was 822.

Located at -31.906, 116.135 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.735 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia

Chippers Leap

Chippers Leap, formerly known as Chipper's Leap, is a granite outcrop on Greenmount Hill in Perth, Western Australia. It is located at 31º54'S 116º04'E, on the northern side of Great Eastern Highway, near the border between the suburbs of Swan View and Greenmount. Chippers Leap is named for John Chipper, who jumped from the rock on 3 February 1832 while trying to escape an attack by a party of Noongars.

Located at -31.9, 116.067 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.731 miles away.
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Heritage places of Western Australia, Greenmount, Western Australia

Gooseberry Hill, Western Australia

Gooseberry Hill is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Shire of Kalamunda. It is the site of Gooseberry Hill National Park. It is located at the highest point south of the departure of the Helena River from the Darling Scarp on to the Swan Coastal Plain. It is often associated with the railway formation of the Kalamunda Zig Zag, and the northern most high feature of Statham's Quarry which lie on the north west of the locality within national park land.

Located at -31.954, 116.049 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.730 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, Darling Range, Gooseberry Hill, Western Australia

Hacketts Gully, Western Australia

Hacketts Gully is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Shire of Kalamunda. It was officially named in 1972 and commemorates an early settler and market gardener, Thomas Hackett.

Located at -31.98, 116.101 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.732 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia

Paulls Valley, Western Australia

Paulls Valley is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Shire of Kalamunda. It was officially named in 1973 and commemorates Albert Paull, an early orchardist who settled in the district in 1914. Located on the southern side of the Helena River valley the main access to the locality is from the Mundaring Weir Road

Located at -31.954, 116.097 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.732 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, Darling Range

Piesse Brook, Western Australia

Piesse Brook is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia in the Shire of Kalamunda. It was officially named in 1972, although the name had been in use since 1890 for a watercourse in the area which honoured William Roper Piesse, a prominent citizen with a large family who were based in Guildford.

Located at -31.971, 116.08 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.731 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia

Helena Valley, Western Australia

Helena Valley is the name of a river valley and a locality in the foothills of the Darling Scarp in Perth, Western Australia. It is located approximately 10 minutes from Midland.

Located at -31.938, 116.068 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.731 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia

Parkerville, Western Australia

Parkerville is a suburb in the Shire of Mundaring in Western Australia. Jane Brook flows through Parkerville on its way down to the Swan River through John Forrest National Park.

Located at -31.874, 116.145 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.736 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia

Hovea, Western Australia

Hovea is a suburb in the Shire of Mundaring in Western Australia. It is bordered by the Railway Reserve Heritage Trail to the North, and Glen Forrest and the Great Eastern Highway to the south. The western boundary of this locality is the John Forrest National Park.

Located at -31.874, 116.107 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.734 miles away.
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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, Darling Range

Shire of Mundaring

The Shire of Mundaring is a Local Government Area on the eastern fringe of metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia. The Shire covers an area of 645 square kilometres and has a population of 35,097 (2006).

Located at -31.897, 116.171 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.737 miles away.
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Local Government Areas of Western Australia, Mundaring, Western Australia

Swan View railway station

Swan View railway station, Perth was a railway station of significance on the Eastern Railway in Western Australia. In all Working Timetables (WTT) during the operation of this line, the station was the point of control for the Swan View Tunnel The Bellevue to Chidlow railway line involved the encounter with the Darling Scarp requiring extra power for the up line, and considerable extra caution for the up and down lines.

Located at -31.8872, 116.06 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.731 miles away.
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Disused railway stations in Western Australia, Swan View, Western Australia

Katherine Mary Clutterbuck

This article includes biographical information relating to the Anglican nun known as Sister Kate, as well as the institution that she established which was known as Sister Kate's. Katherine Mary Clutterbuck, MBE, usually known as Sister Kate, was an Anglican nun who pioneered a cottage home system for looking after orphan babies and children in Western Australia.

Located at -31.8756, 116.111 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.734 miles away.
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1860 births, 1946 deaths, History of Western Australia, History of Indigenous Australians, Members of the Order of the British Empire

Statham's Quarry

Statham's Quarry (also known as Darling Range Quarry, and then Perth City Council's Darling Range Quarry after 1920) is the site of a quarry on the Darling Scarp on the southern side of the entrance of the Helena River valley on to the Swan Coastal Plain in Perth, Western Australia. It is located in Gooseberry Hill and is within the bounds of the Gooseberry Hill National Park

Located at -31.9342, 116.048 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.730 miles away.
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Geology of Western Australia, Darling Range, State Register of Heritage Places, Gooseberry Hill, Western Australia

Mundaring-Kalamunda Important Bird Area

The Mundaring-Kalamunda Important Bird Area comprises a fragmented 137 km of land centred on the towns of Mundaring and Kalamunda in the Darling Scarp region of Western Australia.

Located at -31.9606, 116.14 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.735 miles away.
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Darling Range, Important Bird Areas of Western Australia, Kalamunda, Western Australia

Midland Cemetery

Midland Cemetery is a metropolitan cemetery in the suburb of Swan view in Perth, Western Australia. In earlier times it was known as the Midland Junction Cemetery due to its control by the local council of that name It is currently administered by the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board Previously it had been administered by the local government People interred at Midland Cemetery include Albert Facey Burial lists up to 1998 are available from the Cemeteries Board and are viewable at Battye Library

Located at -31.8833, 116.05 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7.731 miles away.
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Cemeteries in Western Australia, Midland, Western Australia