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Mundaring is located 34 km east of Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
 on the Great Eastern Highway
Great Eastern Highway

Great Eastern Highway, Western Australia is a major road linking Perth, Western Australia with Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. It is a key route for vehicles accessing eastern Wheatbelt and the eastern Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia....
 and is the location of the Shire of Mundaring
Shire of Mundaring

The Shire of Mundaring is a Local Government Areas of Western Australia on the eastern fringe of List of Perth suburbs Perth, Western Australia, the capital of Western Australia....
.

The Aboriginal name of the area 'Mindah-lung', said to mean 'a high place on a high place', was anglicised to become 'Mundaring'.

Also many make the association of the name with the dam south of the locality – Mundaring Weir. The Mundaring area is also considered to be part of the Perth Hills area as marketed by tourism groups and promoters.


shire has been well served by history books, and has a very active historical society – the Mundaring and Hills Historical Society
Mundaring and Hills Historical Society

The Mundaring and Hills Historical Society is a local history society for the Mundaring Shire based in Glen Forrest, Perth, Western Australia....
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Mundaring is located 34 km east of Perth
Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
 on the Great Eastern Highway
Great Eastern Highway

Great Eastern Highway, Western Australia is a major road linking Perth, Western Australia with Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. It is a key route for vehicles accessing eastern Wheatbelt and the eastern Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia....
 and is the location of the Shire of Mundaring
Shire of Mundaring

The Shire of Mundaring is a Local Government Areas of Western Australia on the eastern fringe of List of Perth suburbs Perth, Western Australia, the capital of Western Australia....
.

The Aboriginal name of the area 'Mindah-lung', said to mean 'a high place on a high place', was anglicised to become 'Mundaring'.

Also many make the association of the name with the dam south of the locality – Mundaring Weir. The Mundaring area is also considered to be part of the Perth Hills area as marketed by tourism groups and promoters.

Mundaring Park Statues Gnangarra

History

The shire has been well served by history books, and has a very active historical society – the Mundaring and Hills Historical Society
Mundaring and Hills Historical Society

The Mundaring and Hills Historical Society is a local history society for the Mundaring Shire based in Glen Forrest, Perth, Western Australia....
. The first major shire produced history was the Ian Elliots Mundaring – A history of the Shire, which was published in 1983, and was reprinted in 1998. The format of the book covered the whole shire, area by area. The second shire volume coincided with the centenary of the shire in 2003. Ken Spillman was the researcher and author, and it was titled Life was meant to be here: community and local government in the Shire of Mundaring. The Mundaring and Hills Historical Society has shire patronage and funding, and has been effective in attracting interest and cultivating research and collection of materials that relate to the considerable history of the shire.

Newspapers

Mundaring is currently well served by weekly and monthly newspapers –
  • Darlington Review
    Darlington Review

    Darlington ReviewLocal monthly newspaper for Darlington, Western Australia.Possibly one of the longest lasting community newspapers of its sort in Western Australia, commenced in 1954....
     – locality specific
  • The Echo' – weekly – Midland
    Midland, Western Australia

    Midland is a suburb in the Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia metropolitan area, as well as the regional centre for the City of Swan Local Government Areas of Western Australia that covers the Swan Valley, Western Australia and parts of the Darling Scarp to the east....
     based
  • Hills Gazette (Community Newspapers) – weekly
  • Mundaring magazine – monthly


Earlier newspapers in the area include –
  • The Darling
  • Swan express – although Midland based had considerable space to 'Hills' stories.
    • It is also extracted in entries in the J S Battye Library
      J S Battye Library

      The J S Battye Library is an arm of the State Library of Western Australia. It stores much of the state's historical records and original publications including books, newspapers, periodicals, maps, and ephemera, as well as oral history tapes, photographs and artworks, films and video, and non-government records which are kept in the library'...
       catalogue with items about the Hills.

Railway

The only railway line current in the Mundaring Shire – is the third route of the Eastern Railway which passes through Bellevue
Bellevue, Western Australia

Bellevue is an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia. Its Local Government Areas of Western Australias are the City of Swan and the Shire of Mundaring, and it is located at the foot of the slopes of Greenmount, Western Australia, a landmark on the Darling Scarp that is noted in the earliest of travel journals of the ea...
 and Swan View. The railway routes mentioned below – first route and second route are no longer operational – and constitute sections of the Railway Reserve Heritage Trail
Railway Reserve Heritage Trail

Railway Reserve Heritage Trail, also on some road maps as Rail reserves heritage trail or Rail reserves historical trail - and frequently referred to locally as the 'Bridle Trail' or 'Bridle Track,' is within the Shire of Mundaring in Western Australia....
. The Eastern Railway
Eastern Railway (Western Australia)

|}|}|}|}Eastern Railway is the name given to the railway constructed east of Fremantle, Western Australia, Western Australia, in the 19th century....
 passed through Mundaring on its first route through to Chidlow
Chidlow, Western Australia

Chidlow is a small community in the Shire of Mundaring approximately 45 kilometres east of Perth, Western Australia....
. Mundaring railway station, and the branch railway leading from it – the Mundaring Weir Branch Railway
Mundaring Weir Branch Railway

|}The Mundaring Weir Branch Railway was constructed from Mundaring, Western Australia, Western Australia to the site of the Mundaring Weir, Western Australia, and opened on June 1 1898....
 were significant locations for the construction of the Mundaring Weir
Mundaring Weir

Mundaring Weir is the name of a dam which are located from Perth, Western Australia in the Darling Scarp. It is situated in the Mundaring, Western Australia locality....
. Following the construction of the second route of the Eastern Railway, the Mundaring line served as an alternative to the second route at the time of accidents and derailments, until its closing to traffic in 1954. The line through Mundaring was known as the Mundaring Loop to railway administration in its later years of operation, while in earlier years it was known as Smiths Mill Branch (the earlier name for Glen Forrest
Glen Forrest, Western Australia

Glen Forrest is a suburb within the Shire of Mundaring, south of John Forrest National Park, west of Mahogany Creek, Western Australia, east of Darlington, Western Australia, and north of the Helena River....
).

Further reading


External links

  • on Geoscience Australia
    Geoscience Australia

    Geoscience Australia is an Government agency of the Government of Australia. It carries out geoscience research.On a user pays basis it produces geospatial products such as topographic maps and satellite imagery....