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

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.
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.
- 01Lilac 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 - 02Western 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 - 03Garrick 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 - 04Stirling 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 - 05Bert 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 - 06Mooro-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 - 07Guildford 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 - 08Guildford 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 - 09St 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 - 10Bayswater 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
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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 → Bassendean1316 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · A$250–380
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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Next door to Bassendean
Bassendean is 10 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.