Belmont, Western Australia
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| Coordinates: 31°56′42″S 115°55′37″E / 31.945°S 115.927°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Western Australia | ||||||||||||
| City | Perth | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 4.4 km2 (1.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 6,959 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 6104 | ||||||||||||
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Belmont is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, seven kilometres east of the central business district on the southern bank of the Swan River. Its local government area is the City of Belmont.
The suburb, part of a land grant assigned to Captain Francis Henry Byrne in 1831, was believed to have been named Belmont after Byrne's estate in England. The land was purchased by Shepherd Smith of Sydney in 1882, who subdivided it in 1897–1898.[3]
The local government body based in Belmont was originally known as the Belmont Park Road Board.[4]
The suburb was known as Belmont Park until being renamed in 1968.[5]
Today, the suburb is mixed-use in character. The western part of the suburb is primarily industrial and commercial, while the east and north are more residential, with various motels and other accommodation along Great Eastern Highway, which forms the suburb's north-western boundary. It contains two public schools—Belmont Primary School, and Belmont City College (formerly Belmont Senior High School)—as well as Centenary Park, Signal Hill Bushland, the Belgravia Residential Estate and a 500-metre (1,600 ft) section on the south bank of the Swan River.
Belmont possesses a sister city partnership with Adachi, Tokyo in Japan, which has been in place since October 1984.[6]
Transport
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[edit]Belmont is served by the following Transperth bus routes:
- 39: Redcliffe station to Elizabeth Quay bus station – serves Epsom Avenue[7]
- 270: to Elizabeth Quay bus station to High Wycombe station – serves Belmont Avenue[8]
- 293: Redcliffe station to High Wycombe Station – serves Epsom Avenue, Great Eastern Highway, Belgravia Street, Fairbrother Street and Abernethy Road[9]
- 935: Redcliffe station to Kings Park – serves Epsom Avenue, Belvidere Street, Hardey Road, Alexander Road, Abernethy Road and Belmont Avenue[10]
- 940: Redcliffe station to Elizabeth Quay bus station – serves Great Eastern Highway[11]
- 998: Fremantle station to Fremantle station (limited stops) – CircleRoute clockwise, serves Hardey Road[12]
- 999: Fremantle station to Fremantle station (limited stops) – CircleRoute anti-clockwise, serves Hardey Road[13]
Rail
[edit]A 1.6 kilometre branch line branching off the Eastern Railway at Bayswater was opened in 1885 by the Western Australian Government Railways to serve Ascot Racecourse. It closed in June 1956.[14] The Mills Pottery Works had 2ft gauge tramway that ran to a jetty on the Swan River. It had closed by 1929.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Belmont (WA) (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Belmont (WA) (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "History of metropolitan suburb names – B". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 16 March 2022. Retrieved 11 June 2009.
- ^ Belmont Park road board district, G. H. Smith, 1920, retrieved 20 May 2018
- ^ "Change of Name of Localities (per 2247/55)". Western Australia Government Gazette. 10 May 1968. p. 1968:1319.
- ^ "Belmont Sister City student exchange program | City of Belmont".
- ^ "Route 39". Bus Timetable 90 (PDF). Transperth. 26 August 2025 [effective from 13 October 2025].
- ^ "Route 270". Bus Timetable 108 (PDF). Transperth. 14 August 2025 [effective from 13 October 2025].
- ^ "Route 293". Bus Timetable 111 (PDF). Transperth. 14 August 2025 [effective from 13 October 2025].
- ^ "Route 935". Bus Timetable 209 (PDF). Transperth. 7 April 2025 [effective from 9 June 2025].
- ^ "Route 940". Bus Timetable 214 (PDF). Transperth. 4 April 2025 [effective from 9 June 2025].
- ^ "Route 998". CircleRoute Timetable 200 (PDF) (CircleRoute). Transperth. 18 June 2025 [effective from 20 July 2025].
- ^ "Route 999". CircleRoute Timetable 200 (PDF) (CircleRoute). Transperth. 18 June 2025 [effective from 20 July 2025].
- ^ A Way to a Day at the Races Australian Railway History issue 1009 March 2022 pages 34-45
- ^ Tramways of the Belmont District Light Railways issue 59 January 1978 pages 21/22
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