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Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery

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Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery
Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery

Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery is located in Kenwick, Western Australia adjacent to Albany Highway. It is part of the 1.2 hectares (3 acres) of land donated by Wallace Bickley for a school for the children of the Canning in 1863. In 1865 a rammed earth building with shingle roof was constructed by convicts. Kenwick School, sometimes referred to as Canning School, opened with six pupils and was the district's only school for 20 years. The school, with accommodation for a school teacher and police constable, served as school, courthouse, church, post office and social centre for many years.The first meeting of the Canning Roads Board met in the school room in 1870. Members were W.L. Gibbs, E. Powell, T. Buckingham Jnr, J. White, E.M. Marsh, F. Watts, and F. Bird.A church, St Michael and All Angels, was built on a site next to the school and served the district until the end of the century. The school closed in 1896 and in 1900 the school and church were demolished. Only the cemetery remains. Over 200 people were buried at the cemetery during its use, however few grave stones remain.

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Kenwick Pioneer Cemetery
Albany Highway, City Of Gosnells

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Albany Highway
6109 City Of Gosnells, Kenwick
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Brixton Street Wetlands
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The Brixton Street Wetlands is an environmentally significant wetland area in the city of Perth, Western Australia. The wetlands are located in the suburb of Kenwick, in the south-east of the city not far from the foot of the Darling Scarp. The Brixton Street Wetlands occupies 126 hectares (310 acres) adjoining urban residential developments, schools and remnant semi-rural properties in an area which is rapidly urbanising. Roe Highway, a major transport artery, runs along one boundary of the wetlands, together with a parallel railway line. The wetlands contain a huge number of plant species for such a small area, some of which are rare and endangered. Over 400 plant species, comprising some 20% of the flora species of the Perth area, can be found in the wetlands. Of these, about 80 flowering plants are considered endangered and are not commonly found on the Swan Coastal Plain on which Perth is located, and the plant communities located here are in fact the last substantial wetland plant communities on the plain's claypans. Four of the species are classified as Declared Rare Flora, including Purdie's donkey orchid (Diuris purdiei). Fauna include frogs, snakes and insects, but the wetlands are especially important as a habitat for the rare southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus), often known by its Nyoongar Aboriginal name of quenda.The wetlands were entered into A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia in 1992 (recorded there as the Brixton Street Swamps), and were placed on the Register of the National Estate of the Australian Heritage Commission on 21 November 2000.