Shenton Park, Western Australia
Encyclopedia
- For the park within the suburb, see Lake JualbupLake JualbupJualbup Lake, formerly Shenton Park Lake, is located in the suburb of Shenton Park, Perth, Western Australia. The lake is contained within Shenton Park, which is bounded by Lake Avenue, Excelsior Street, Evans Street and Herbert Road...
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Shenton Park is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, located within the City of Subiaco
City of Subiaco
The City of Subiaco is a Local Government Area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 7 km² in inner western metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia and lies about 3 km west of the Perth CBD.-History:...
and 4 km west of the Central business district
Central business district
A central business district is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In North America this part of a city is commonly referred to as "downtown" or "city center"...
. Its postcode is 6008. The suburb is named after the park that it contains; Shenton Park
Lake Jualbup
Jualbup Lake, formerly Shenton Park Lake, is located in the suburb of Shenton Park, Perth, Western Australia. The lake is contained within Shenton Park, which is bounded by Lake Avenue, Excelsior Street, Evans Street and Herbert Road...
, which was named after George Shenton
George Shenton
Sir George Shenton was a prominent businessman in colonial Western Australia, the first Mayor of Perth, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for over thirty years.-Early and family life:...
who originally owned the land that is now the suburb of Shenton Park.
Facilities
On the western side is Shenton CollegeShenton College
Shenton College is a co-educational Independent Public Secondary school located in Shenton Park, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.-History:...
, a purpose-built high school established in 2000, a teaching and rehabilitation hospital which includes a health science campus of Curtin University of Technology
Curtin University of Technology
Curtin University is an Australian university based in Perth, Western Australia, with additional campuses in regional Western Australia and at Miri , Sydney and Singapore...
, two private hospitals, the University of Western Australia
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...
Shenton Field Station, offices of numerous health advocacy associations and depots and processing plants associated with the Water Authority and various councils.
The eastern side is almost entirely residential, with a small commercial area on Onslow Road, a primary school and several churches and halls.
Hospital
During an outbreak of smallpoxSmallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning "spotted", or varus, meaning "pimple"...
in 1893, the colonial government set up an isolation tent hospital in the bush at Shenton Park. Today the facility is home to the Rehabilitation Services and Spinal Unit of Royal Perth Hospital.
Transport
Shenton Park is divided by the Fremantle railway line and is served by the Shenton Park train station, the CircleRouteCircleRoute
The CircleRoute is a pair of suburban bus routes in Perth, Western Australia. Like all Perth bus routes, the buses are branded Transperth and operated by companies contracted by the Public Transport Authority. The routes are identical except for direction: 98 is clockwise, and 99 is anticlockwise...
and numerous bus routes.
Media
The suburb is the base of Post NewspapersPost Newspapers
Post Newspapers comprises the four editions of a community newspaper covering a group of western suburbs in Perth, Western Australia.The Post Newspapers group was established as the Subiaco Post by reporter Bret Christian and his wife Bettye in September 1977 at a house in Churchill Avenue,...
, in Onslow Road, a weekly newspaper that is distributed in Perth's western suburbs.
Animal welfare
Shenton Park has two animal welfare organisations opposite each other on Lemnos Street: the Dogs' Refuge Home and the Cat Haven.See also
- Lake JualbupLake JualbupJualbup Lake, formerly Shenton Park Lake, is located in the suburb of Shenton Park, Perth, Western Australia. The lake is contained within Shenton Park, which is bounded by Lake Avenue, Excelsior Street, Evans Street and Herbert Road...
, formerly Shenton Lake - Shenton Park railway station
- Shenton Bushland
- Underwood Avenue Bushland