Mahogany Creek, Western Australia

Mahogany Creek
Perth, Western Australia
Mahogany Inne old building facing Great Eastern Highway
Map
Coordinates31°54′22″S 116°08′06″E / 31.906°S 116.135°E / -31.906; 116.135
Population829 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)6072
LGA(s)Shire of Mundaring
State electorate(s)Swan Hills
Federal division(s)Hasluck
Suburbs around Mahogany Creek:
Hovea Parkerville Parkerville
Glen Forrest Mahogany Creek Mundaring
Glen Forrest Paulls Valley Mundaring

Mahogany Creek is a suburb of Perth, the state capital of Western Australia. It is part of the Shire of Mundaring local government area.

Its name is derived from the historic Mahogany Inn, constructed in about 1880, and situated on what was the York Road, now known as the Great Eastern Highway.[2] The inn is heritage listed.[3][4][5]

"Swan River Mahogany" was the name by which Eucalyptus marginata, one of the colony's earliest exports, was known in its European market.

Mahogany Creek is also the location of the steepest section of the Great Eastern Highway after Greenmount Hill.

The suburb had a population of 763 in 1991, and in 1996 it was 822.

There was a railway station on the original route of the Eastern Railway, and there have been a number of shops close to the railway station. Only one remains, now an antique shop.[6]

Transport

Bus

  •    320 Midland Station to Mundaring – serves Great Eastern Highway, Brooking Road, Strettle Road and Homestead Road[7]
  •    328 Midland Station to Chidlow – serves Great Eastern Highway[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Mahogany Creek (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Mahogany Inne". Western Mail (Western Australia). Vol. 66, no. 3, 781. Western Australia. 20 December 1951. p. 13. Retrieved 7 November 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Barnacle, Robert (1900), A souvenir of the Old Mahogany Inn, R. & I. Barnacle, retrieved 8 September 2021
  4. ^ Old Mahogany Inn (1960), Your guide to - the Old Mahogany Inn, The Inn, retrieved 8 September 2021
  5. ^ Bush, Fiona; Griffiths, Philip; Heritage Council of Western Australia (2005), Conservation plan, Mahogany Inn, Mahogany Creek, distributed by Heritage Council of WA], retrieved 8 September 2021
  6. ^ Ilbery, E. L. (Eva Lucy), 1885-1959; Baker, Herzel W. (Herzel William), 1906-1982 (December 1942), "The early days of Mahogany Creek", Early Days (Perth, WA), [3] (pt.4): 25–26, ISSN 1837-851X{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Route 320". Bus Timetable 97 (PDF). Transperth. 7 October 2024 [effective from 9 December 2024].
  8. ^ "Route 328". Bus Timetable 97 (PDF). Transperth. 7 October 2024 [effective from 9 December 2024].

Further reading

  • 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.