Peringillup, Western Australia

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Peringillup
Western Australia
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Peringillup
Peringillup, Western Australia
Coordinates 33°56′09″S117°38′48″E / 33.93594°S 117.64680°E / -33.93594; 117.64680
Gazetted 1914
Postcode(s) 6318
Area0.05 km2 (0.019 sq mi)
Location
LGA(s) Shire of Broomehill–Tambellup
State electorate(s) Roe
Federal division(s) O'Connor

Peringillup is an abandoned townsite in the Shire of Broomehill-Tambellup of the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Peringillup is located on the Great Southern Highway. The gazetted area of the town is not contiguous. While the majority of it is located east of the Great Southern Highway, a small exclave is to the west of the highway, south-west of the main area of Peringillup. All of the gazetted area of the former townsite is now covered by the Peringillup Nature Reserve. [1] [2]

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With a size of 0.05 square kilometres (0.019 sq mi), it is one of the smallest gazetted townsites in Western Australia. [3]

History

Peringillup was established in 1907 as a siding on the Great Southern Railway, which originally had opened in 1889. It was originally known as Wudara. The decision was made to establish a townsite at Peringillup in 1911, and it was gazetted in 1914. The name originates from the near-by Perringillup Well and is of Aboriginal origin. It was first recorded in 1878 but its meaning is not known. [4]

Nature reserve

The Peringillup Nature Reserve was gazetted on 12 October 1979, has a size of 2.18 square kilometres (0.84 sq mi), and is located within the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "SLIP Map". maps.slip.wa.gov.au. Landgate . Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  2. ↑ "NationalMap". nationalmap.gov.au. Geoscience Australia . Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  3. ↑ "Townsites (LGATE-248)". catalogue.data.wa.gov.au. Landgate . Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  4. ↑ "History of country town names – P". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  5. ↑ "Terrestrial CAPAD 2022 WA summary". www.dcceew.gov.au/. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water . Retrieved 16 October 2024.
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