Cannington
Worth seeing in and around Cannington
8 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.
- 01St. Norbert College
St Norbert College is a private Catholic secondary school in Queens Park, Perth, Western Australia. Founded in 1965 by Peter O'Reilly O Praem and John Reynolds O Praem, both Norbertine priests and educators, the school was named after Saint Norbert of Xanten.
1.3 km · private school in Queens Park, Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Westfield Carousel
Westfield Carousel is an Australian shopping centre in the Perth suburb of Cannington. It is located approximately 12 kilometres from the Perth central business district on the Albany Highway and approximately 600 metres from Cannington railway station.
500 m · shopping center in Cannington, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 03Castledare Boys' Home
Castledare Boys' Home was a residential college in Wilson, Western Australia owned and operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers from March 1929 to 1983 and established for the treatment and training of intellectually handicapped children. A 1929 newspaper article announcing the opening described it as a "training school for sub-normal boys".
2.3 km · Heritage listed building in Wilson, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 04Australian Sikh Heritage Trail
The Australian Sikh Heritage Trail, a group of interconnected pathways in Adenia Park, Riverton, Western Australia, is a monument commemorating the history of Sikhs in Australia. The location, adjacent to the Canning River within the Canning River Regional Park, is significant as the heritage-listed Sikh cremation site.
3.2 km · heritage site and monument in Riverton, Western Australia. · Wikipedia - 05Riverton Bridge
Riverton Bridge is a two-lane road traffic bridge spanning the Canning River at Riverton, in Perth, Western Australia. It was originally built in 1911 and known as the Watts Road Bridge, being renamed to Riverton Bridge in 1916.
3.6 km · bridge in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 06Edward Millen Home (former)
The Edward Millen Home, originally known as the Rotunda Hospital and later as the Hillview Terrace Hospital, is a heritage-listed former hospital located in East Victoria Park, Western Australia. The Federation Queen Anne-style main building was opened as a private maternity hospital in 1912 and acquired by the federal Repatriation Department in 1920 for the use of returned soldiers.
3.7 km · heritage listed building in Victoria Park, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 07Canning River Regional Park
The Canning River Regional Park is the largest of eight regional parks within the Perth metropolitan area. The park covers approximately 6 kilometres on both sides of the Canning River between the bridges carrying Nicholson Road and Leach Highway over the Canning River.
2.3 km · regional park in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 08Woodloes Homestead
Woodloes Homestead was built in 1871 by architect Francis Bird. The homestead is situated on the banks of the Canning River in Cannington.
1.3 km · heritage listed building in Cannington, Western Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cannington
- Airports
- Perth (PER), 9 km
- Stations
- Curtin University bus station, 3.9 km · Kenwick railway station, 3.9 km · Oats Street railway station, 3.8 km · Queens Park railway station, 1 km · Welshpool railway station, 2.6 km
- Port Hedland → Cannington1328 km · quickest by air, 5h 22m · A$260–390
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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 Cannington
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 Cannington. 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 Cannington
Cannington is 10 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bentleysuburb of Perth, Western Australia3 km
- Saint Jamessuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.9 km
- Ferndalesuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.8 km
- Wilsonsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.4 km
- East Canningtonsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.2 km
- Queens Parksuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.5 km