Sawyers Valley, Western Australia

Sawyers Valley
PerthWestern Australia
Great Eastern Highway in Sawyers Valley from the west
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Coordinates31°56′46″S 116°14′46″E / 31.946°S 116.246°E / -31.946; 116.246
Population1,001 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)6074
LGA(s)Shire of Mundaring
State electorate(s)Electoral district of Darling Range
Federal division(s)Hasluck
Suburbs around Sawyers Valley:
Stoneville Mount Helena Chidlow
Mundaring Sawyers Valley Gorrie
Mundaring Weir Reservoir Reservoir

Sawyers Valley is sited on the Great Eastern Highway about 40 kilometres from Perth, Western Australia in the Shire of Mundaring. The community began as a sawmill and railway siding to process timber from the forest surrounding the Helena River to the south. Local employment included forest and Goldfields Water Supply Scheme maintenance, small orchards, and the Midland Railway Workshops. The suburb's name comes from the occupation of many of the first European settlers to the area in the 1860s, who were sawyers working at the local saw-pits. The Sawyers Valley Tavern, which sits on the Highway opposite the Railway Reserve Heritage Trail, was first established in 1882 and the Sawyers Valley railway station was built in 1884.[2][3]

Looking west - Great Eastern Highway through Sawyers Valley in 2010
  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Sawyers Valley (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "History of metropolitan suburb names – S". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 16 March 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Classified Advertising". The West Australian. Vol. IV, no. 256. 16 May 1882. p. 2. Retrieved 24 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.