Town in Western Australia
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 continious. 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]
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 as a siding on the Great Southern Railway, which originally had opened in 1889, in 1907. Originally known as Wudara, the decision was made to establish a townsite at Peringillup in 1911, which 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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