Mundaring, Western Australia
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Mundaring is located 36 km east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway, with most of the shopping centre on the northern side of the highway, and most services on the south side. Most of the local bank branches have been reduced to ATMs and a number of agencies remain. The locality no longer has a petrol station, but the evidence of one closed station remains. The nearest west is at Mahogany Creek, or east at Sawyers Valley.
The Aboriginal name of the area 'Mindah-lung', said to mean 'a high place on a high place', was anglicised to become 'Mundaring'. [1]
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.
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[edit] History
The shire has been well served by history books, and has a very active historical society - the Mundaring and Hills Historical Society. 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.
[edit] Newspapers
Mundaring is currently well served by weekly and monthly newspapers -
- Darlington Review - locality specific
- The Echo' - weekly - Midland 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 Battye Library catalogue with items about the Hills.
[edit] Railway
The only railway line current in the Mundaring Shire - is the third route of the Eastern Railway which passes through Bellevue 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. The Eastern Railway passed through Mundaring on its first route through to Chidlow. Mundaring railway station, and the branch railway leading from it - the Mundaring Weir Branch Railway were significant locations for the construction of the Mundaring Weir. 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).
[edit] References
- ^ History of Mundaring www.heritageaustralia.com.au (accessed 01 April, 2006)
- Elliot, Ian (1983). Mundaring - A History of the Shire, 2nd ed., Mundaring: Mundaring Shire. ISBN 0-9592776-0-9.
- Spillman, Ken (2003). Life was meant to be here: community and local government in the Shire of Mundaring. Mundaring: Mundaring Shire. ISBN 0-9592776-3-3.
- Watson, Lindsay (1995). The railway history of Midland Junction : commemorating the centenary of Midland Junction, 1895-1995. ISBN 0-646-24461-2 (pbk.).
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| Suburbs of the Shire of Mundaring | |
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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 |
