Swan View, Western Australia

Swan View is an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its local government areas are the City of Swan and the Shire of Mundaring. It is 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Perth in the Perth Hills on the edge of the Darling Scarp, just to the west of the John Forrest National Park, east of Roe Highway and north of the Great Eastern Highway.

Swan View Perth, Western Australia
The historic Swan View Tunnel
Coordinates	31.888°S 116.049°E / -31.888; 116.049
Population	7,889 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)	6056
Area	7.3 km2 (2.8 sq mi)
Location	6 km (4 mi) from Midland
LGA(s)	Shire of Mundaring City of Swan
State electorate(s)	Midland
Federal division(s)	Hasluck
Suburbs around Swan View: Middle Swan Stratton Jane Brook Midvale Swan View Hovea Bellevue Greenmount Darlington

The Brown Park community recreation ground^[2] is the location of the long-standing annual Swan View Agricultural Show.^[3]

Transport

The railway station of Swan View was the important control point for traffic through and around the Swan View Tunnel until it closed on 13 February 1966.^[4]

Today, Swan View is served by Transperth buses from Midland, operated by the Public Transport Authority, while the Avonlink/Prospector railway line to Northam and beyond runs along Swan View's western edge.

Bus

•    313 Jane Brook to Midland Station – serves Talbot Road and Morrison Road^[5]
•    314 Midland Station to Midland Station – Clockwise Circular Route, serves Talbot Road and Morrison Road^[6]
•    315 Midland Station to Midland Station – Clockwise Circular Route, serves Myles Road, Friday Corner, Blackadder Road and Morrison Road^[7]
•    323 Swan View to Midland Station – serves Talbot Road, Tunnel Road, Viveash Road, Stirling Close, Salisbury Road, Welbourn Road, Beresford Gardens, Amherst Road, Buckingham Road, Marlboro Road and Morrison Road^[8]
•    324 Midland Station to Midland Station – Anti-Clockwise Circular Route, serves Morrison Road and Talbot Road^[9]
•    325 Midland Station to Midland Station – Anti-Clockwise Circular Route, serves Morrison Road, Myles Road and Blackadder Road^[10]
•    327 Swan View Shopping Centre to Midland Station – serves Marlboro Road, Fairfax Road, Blanchard Road, Myles Road and Morrison Road^[11]

Geography

Swan View is bounded by the Avonlink/Prospector railway line to the west, the former railway (now part of the Railway Reserves Heritage Trail) to the south, John Forrest National Park to the east, and a line east from Blackadder Creek (in part incorporating O'Connor Road and Murchison Drive) to the north. The suburb is almost entirely residential and parkland.^[12]

At the 2011 census, Swan View had a population of 8,027 people living in 3,349 dwellings.^{[13][needs update]} About 15% of the population are of Southern or Eastern European origins.^{[citation needed]}

Notes

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Swan View (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
2. "Greenmount P. & C. Association". The Swan Express. Vol. LIV, no. 32. Western Australia. 13 August 1953. p. 7. Retrieved 2 February 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
3. "SWAN View Show". The Swan Express. Vol. L, no. 29. Western Australia. 21 July 1949. p. 5. Retrieved 2 February 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
4. Watson, Lindsay (1995). The railway history of Midland Junction : commemorating the centenary of Midland Junction, 1895-1995. Swan View, W.A: L " S Drafting in association with the Shire of Swan and the Western Australian Light Railway Preservation Association. ISBN 0-646-24461-2.
5. "Route 313". Bus Timetable 87 (PDF). Transperth. 27 April 2023 [effective from 12 June 2023].
6. "Route 314". Bus Timetable 87 (PDF). Transperth. 27 April 2023 [effective from 12 June 2023].
7. "Route 315". Bus Timetable 87 (PDF). Transperth. 27 April 2023 [effective from 12 June 2023].
8. "Route 323". Bus Timetable 87 (PDF). Transperth. 27 April 2023 [effective from 12 June 2023].
9. "Route 324". Bus Timetable 87 (PDF). Transperth. 27 April 2023 [effective from 12 June 2023].
10. "Route 325". Bus Timetable 87 (PDF). Transperth. 27 April 2023 [effective from 12 June 2023].
11. "Route 327". Bus Timetable 87 (PDF). Transperth. 27 April 2023 [effective from 12 June 2023].
12. 2006 StreetSmart directory, Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth.
13. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Swan View (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 30 December 2019.

References

• 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.

External links

• Swan View Community Association
• Mundaring and Hills Historical Society website
• Swan View on Geoscience Australia