Stake Hill, Western Australia

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name=Stake Hill
city=Mandurah
state=wa


caption=
lga=Shire of Murray
size=
postcode=6210
pop=
dist1=12
location1=Mandurah
est=1990s
fedgov=Canning
stategov=Mandurah
near-nw=Lakelands
near-n=Karnup
near-ne=Keysbrook
near-w=Parklands
near-e=North Dandalup
near-sw=Greenfields
near-s=Barragup
near-se=Nambeelupcoord|-32.476|115.813|type:city(670)_region:AU-WA_scale:50000|format=dms|display=title

Stake Hill is a northeastern rural residential suburb of Mandurah, Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Murray.

History

The suburb's name comes from Stake Hill (coord|32|23|S|115|46|E|type:landmark_region:AU-WA), a hill which is about 15km north of the suburb. Stakehill Road runs around the north side of Stake Hill (the hill) in the Baldivis area but doesn't run south to Stakehill, the suburb. The area was unpopulated until the 1960s, and settlement in two rural subdivisions took place in the 1990s.

Geography

Stake Hill is bounded by the City of Rockingham border to the north, Mandurah Road to the west, Lakes and Lakelands Roads to the south and Gull Road to the east. [2006 StreetSmart directory, Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth.] The suburb consists of sparsely populated rural residential land with large (~2 ha) lots separated by bushland buffers, with some wetland areas to the southeast and several large lakes and pools along the Serpentine River which flows through the suburb.

Transport

Stake Hill is not served by public transport.

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