Pickering Brook, Western Australia
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Pickering Brook is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Shire of Kalamunda. Its postcode is 6076.
Prior to 1949 it was a stopping place on the Upper Darling Range Railway.
It was named after nearby Pickering Brook. The brook is named after an early settler, Captain Edward Picking whose name was sometimes recorded as Pickering. The suburb of Pickering Brook was officially created on the 12th January 1973. Part of it was formerly known as Carilla.
Like nearby areas such as Karragullen, Pickering Brook is primarily made up of family run orchards.
The suburb was seriously under threat in December 2004 from a bushfire.
[edit] Further reading
- Heroic efforts of fire crews in Perth hills. A fire lit by an arsonist burnt more than 26,000 ha or 260 sq km in the Pickering Brook, Karragullen, Mundaring and Barton's Mill area in Conservation news, Jan. 2005, p.1
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