Forrestfield, Western Australia

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Forrestfield is a suburb of the Shire of Kalamunda in Western Australia. It lies to the southeast of Perth at the base of the Darling Scarp. It is named after Western Australia's first premier, John Forrest (this is one view point).

The suburb is split by Roe Highway into residential and industrial areas. In the industrial area is a major rail hub in Perth with the Australian Railroad Group (ex Westrail) yard being located here. Specialised Container Transport (SCT) have a large intermodal warehouse with connection to the railway line. The $120 million dollar CBH Metro Grains Centre was built in 1998. In mid-2005 BlueScope Steel constructed a large warehouse on former Westrail land. Kenworth DAF also relocated from Guildford to a new $10 million dollar complex on Abernethy Rd in 2005.

The residential side of Forrestfield has the Hartfield Park Sporting Complex. This complex includes indoor stadium as well as fields for cricket, rugby, Australian rules football, hockey, soccer(football), an 18 hole golf course and support facilities for each. In addition to this there is also nature conservation park and lake.

Suburbs of the Shire of Kalamunda
Bickley | Canning Mills | Carmel | Forrestfield | Gooseberry Hill | Hacketts Gully | High Wycombe | Kalamunda | Lesmurdie | Maida Vale | Paulls Valley | Pickering Brook | Piesse Brook | Walliston | Wattle Grove