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Cannington

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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.

  1. 01
    St. 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
  2. 02
    Westfield 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
  3. 03
    Castledare 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
  4. 04
    Australian 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
  5. 05
    Riverton 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
  6. 06
    Edward 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
  7. 07
    Canning 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
  8. 08
    Woodloes 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 → Cannington
    1328 km · quickest by air, 5h 22m · A$260–390
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Not yet researched

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.

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.

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

Around it

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