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Bassendean

Bassendean is a north-eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

Bassendean
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The place

Bassendean is a north-eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its local government area is the Town of Bassendean.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bassendean

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Lilac Hill Park

    Lilac Hill is a cricket ground in Western Australia in the Perth suburb of Caversham. The Swan River flows around its southern and eastern sides.

    2.7 km · cricket ground in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Western Australian Rail Transport Museum

    The Railway Museum, also known as the Rail Transport Museum, is situated in Bassendean, Western Australia. It is run by Rail Heritage WA, the Western Australian division of the Australian Railway Historical Society.

    1.1 km · railway museum in Railway Parade, Bassendean Western Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Garrick Theatre

    The Garrick Theatre is the longest continually running amateur theatre group in metropolitan Western Australia, located at 16 Meadow Street in Guildford, Western Australia. The original structure was built in 1853 and is considered to be one of the few intact parts of a convict depot demonstrating the way of life in the convict era of Western Australia – its current use as a theatre was preceded by use as commissariat store and quarters and later as an infant health centre.

    2.2 km · heritage listed theatre in Guildford, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Stirling Square

    Stirling Square is a public park in Guildford, Western Australia. It was established early in the development of Guildford and has as part of its western side, the historic St Matthew's Church, Guildford and at its south eastern corner, the Talbot Hobbs' Memorial Gates.

    2.1 km · public park in Guildford, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bert Wright Park

    Bert Wright Park is a park in Bayswater, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth. It is situated in the Bayswater town centre, next to Bayswater Library on King William Street.

    3.7 km · park in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mooro-Beeloo Bridge

    The Mooro–Beeloo Bridge, formerly the Redcliffe Bridge, is a traffic bridge which carries Tonkin Highway across the Swan River between the Perth suburbs of Ascot and Bayswater. It was originally named after the nearby suburb of Redcliffe; it was renamed in December 2023 following the completion of upgrades to the bridge and Tonkin Highway.

    3 km · bridge in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Guildford Cemetery

    Guildford Cemetery is a cemetery in the southern part of South Guildford, Western Australia, located between the Great Eastern Highway Bypass and Kalamunda Road adjacent to the Perth Airport. An earlier cemetery in Guildford was established early in the history of the Swan River Colony in James Street; some headstones were moved to Guildford Cemetery when it was established.

    3.2 km · heritage site in South Guildford, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Guildford Grammar School Chapel

    The Guildford Grammar School Chapel usually known as the Chapel of St. Mary and St.

    3.2 km · heritage listed church in Guildford, Western Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Matthew's Church, Guildford

    St Matthew's Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church in Stirling Square, Guildford, Western Australia. The church is part of the Anglican Diocese of Perth.

    2.1 km · heritage-listed church building in Western Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Bayswater Subway

    The Bayswater Subway was a road under rail subway in Perth, Western Australia. It was located immediately west of Bayswater railway station, and carried King William Street / Coode Street beneath the Midland line.

    3.8 km · bridge in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Bassendean

Airports
Perth (PER), 4 km
Stations
East Guildford railway station, 3.1 km · Guildford railway station, 1.7 km · Ashfield railway station, 1.5 km · Bassendean railway station, 300 m · Bayswater railway station, 3.8 km
  • Port Hedland → Bassendean
    1316 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · A$250–380
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bassendean

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bassendean. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA ferry makes the short hop across the Swan River, running between Barrack St Jetty on the City bank and Mends St Jetty in South Perth.
  • Get inFerries run every 15 min weekdays and 30 min on weekends.

From Wikivoyage: Perth/City, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,009 km
  2. 02
    Nusa PenidaID

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    2,577 km
  3. 03
    Gili IslandsID

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    2,619 km
  4. 04
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    3,014 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,062 km

If you know how people move in Bassendean – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bassendean

Bassendean is 10 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Eden Hillsuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.6 km
  • Embletonsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.7 km
  • Guildfordsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.3 km
  • South Guildfordsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.3 km
  • Redcliffesuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.8 km
  • Bayswatersuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.6 km