Warwick Road, Perth

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Warwick Road

Length	8 km
General direction	West-East
From	Marmion Avenue, Sorrento
Major suburbs	Duncraig, Warwick, Greenwood
To	Wanneroo Road, Greenwood
Established	1969
Allocation	State Route 81
Major Junctions	Mitchell Freeway, Erindale Road

Warwick Road is an arterial east-west road located in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It was built in 1969 to service the Shire of Wanneroo parts of the Hamersley Development Scheme, which was later split into the suburbs of Duncraig, Warwick and Greenwood. Its original alignment, which was gazetted in 1949 as Road No. 10578 by the Wanneroo Road Board,^[1] was a straight east-west road extending to Alexander Drive, but in the mid 1970s, the alignment was altered southwards in the vicinity of the freeway alignment (the Mitchell Freeway was not, however, built until 1986), and in the late 1970s, the section east of Wanneroo Road was split off to form Marangaroo Drive.

Apart from the Glengarry and Greenwood neighbourhood shopping centres, Warwick Road also passes Warwick Open Space east of Erindale Road and the Percy Doyle Reserve, which includes sports and recreation facilities and the Duncraig Library, near Marmion Avenue.