Boya, Western Australia

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Boya, Western Australia 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.

It was crucial as a site of quarries. The Mountain Quarry, and the Government Quarry were both important blue stone quarries in their time.

The Government Quarry (on the south eastern part of the locality) was variously named during its time of operation: Mr O'Connor's quarry, the Fremantle Harbour Works Darlington Quarry, the Public Works Quarry, the Government Quarry, and it is currently known as Hudman Road Quarry.

Being at the edge of the Greenmount National Park, and the Hudman Road Quarry the locality has had the misfortune of having had serious threatening bushfires from these locations in recent years.

In the history of the early Eastern Railway - which passed through Boya, Boya was the location of 'Cape Horn' a notorious curve (now erased by roadworks) where runaway trains derailed a number of times in the early twentieth century.

The community has a rich architectural variety of houses due to the challenge of steep and rocky blocks.

[edit] References

• Elliot, Ian Mundaring - A History of the Shire'. 1983 ISBN 0-9592776-0-9
• Spillman, Ken Life was meant to be here: community and local government in the Shire of Mundaring. 2003 ISBN 0-9592776-3-3

Suburbs of the Shire of Mundaring
Bailup | Bellevue | Beechina | Boya | Chidlow | Darlington | Glen Forrest | Greenmount | Helena Valley | Hovea | Mahogany Creek | Midvale | Mount Helena | Mundaring | Parkerville | Sawyers Valley | Stoneville | Swan View | The Lakes | Wooroloo