Byford
Byford is a suburb on the south-eastern edge of Perth, Western Australia, within the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale. The town has its origins in a township that was gazetted under the name "Beenup" in 1906.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 18,900 residents
- Description: suburb of Perth, Western Australia
- Also known as: “Beenup”, “Beenyup”, “Byford, Western Australia”, and “Byford, Western Australia, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Byford railway station and Cohunu Koala Park.
Byford railway station
Railway station
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Byford railway station is a railway station on the Transperth and Transwa networks serving the suburb of Byford in Perth, Western Australia. It is the southern terminus of the Armadale line, located 37.6 kilometres south-east of Perth railway station.
Cohunu Koala Park
Zoo
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Cohunu Koala Park is a wildlife sanctuary on 14 hectares of bushland at Byford, near Perth, Western Australia. Its resident koalas are surrounded by neighbouring animals, including wombats, kangaroos, wallabies, quokkas, echidnas, dingoes, pigs, donkeys, ponies, llamas, alpacas, deers, ostriches, emus, owls, cockatoos, water birds, freshwater crocodiles and bobtails.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Darling Downs and Wungong.
Darling Downs
Suburb
Darling Downs is an outer south-eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, within the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale. The name, referring to the suburb's proximity to the Darling Scarp, was first used as an estate name in 1977, and adopted as a suburb name in 1997. Darling Downs is situated 3 km northwest of Byford.
Wungong
Suburb
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Wungong, pronounced is a semi-rural south-eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located midway between Armadale and Byford and located in the local government area of the City of Armadale. Wungong is situated 3½ km north of Byford.
Cardup
Suburb
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Cardup is an outer suburb of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located in the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale to the north of the town Mundijong. In the 2011 census, it had a population of 972 people. Cardup is situated 5 km southwest of Byford.
Byford
- Categories: suburb of Perth and locality
- Location: Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-32.21601° or 32° 12′ 58″ southLongitude
116.01467° or 116° 0′ 53″ eastPopulation
18,900Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)United Nations Location Code
AU BYFOpen location code
4PVRQ2M7+HVOpenStreetMap ID
node 33405328OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Byford” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Byford”
- Dutch: “Byford”
- French: “Byford”
- Irish: “Byford”
- Persian: “بایفورد، استرالیا غربی”
- Russian: “Байфорд”
- Swedish: “Byford, Western Australia”
- Swedish: “Byford”
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