Cottesloe
Cottesloe is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, within the Town of Cottesloe.

Cottesloe is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, within the Town of Cottesloe. Cottesloe was named for Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, a prominent Tory politician and the brother of Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, for whom the city of Fremantle was named. The nearby suburb of Swanbourne was named for the Fremantle family seat, Swanbourne House, in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire.
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Worth seeing in and around Cottesloe
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.
- 01Edith Cowan University
Edith Cowan University is a public research university in Western Australia. It is named in honour of Edith Cowan, the first woman to be elected to an Australian parliament.
3 km · university in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 02Manners Hill Park
Manners Hill Park is a public park in Peppermint Grove, Western Australia. It is located in Peppermint Grove, an affluent suburb of Perth, and is surrounded by Johnston Street, Bay View Terrace, Keane Street and Lilla Street.
1.7 km · park in Peppermint Grove, Australia · Wikipedia - 03St Mary Star of the Sea
St Mary Star of the Sea is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Peppermint Grove, Western Australia. Located in the Archdiocese of Perth, it is dedicated to Our Lady, Star of the Sea.
900 m · church in Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Cottesloe Beach
Cottesloe Beach, known in the Noongar language as Mudurup, is a popular beach in Cottesloe and one of the most iconic locations of Western Australia. The enduring popularity of the beach is the result of combination of factors including proximity to metropolitan Perth, accessibility by train, shelter from strong summer breezes and presence of offshore reefs making it a relatively safe swimming location.
700 m · beach in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 05St Columba's Presbyterian Church
St Columba's Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church at the corner of Venn and Keane streets in Peppermint Grove, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
1.2 km · Heritage listed building in Peppermint Grove, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 06Claremont Oval
Claremont Oval, also known by naming rights sponsorship as Revo Fitness Stadium, is an Australian rules football stadium located in Perth, Western Australia. The stadium, opened in 1905 as "Claremont Recreation Ground", seats 5,000.
2.9 km · football stadium in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 07Iona Presentation College, Perth
Iona Presentation College is an independent Catholic early learning, primary and secondary school. It is located in Mosman Park, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
2 km · catholic primary and secondary school in Mosman Park, WA, Australia · Wikipedia - 08Methodist Ladies' College
Methodist Ladies' College, Perth, is an independent, Uniting Church, day and boarding school for girls, in Claremont, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Founded by the Methodist Church of Australia in 1907, MLC is a non-selective school, and in 2024, it had about 1,040 girls from pre-kindergarten to Year 12, including 90 boarders.
1.9 km · independent Uniting Church day and boarding school for girls located in Claremont, Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 09Scotch College, Perth
Scotch College, is an independent Uniting Church primary and secondary school for boys, located in the Perth suburb of Swanbourne, Western Australia. It has both day and boarding students.
2 km · independent Uniting Church school in Swanbourne, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 10Cottesloe Civic Centre
The Cottesloe Civic Centre is situated on the corner of Broome and Napier streets in Cottesloe, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is a local landmark featuring a substantial two storey building with white walls and an orange tiled roof in the Spanish Mission style.
100 m · heritage listed building in Cottesloe, Western Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cottesloe
- Airports
- Perth (PER), 21 km
- Stations
- Claremont railway station, 2.7 km · Grant Street railway station, 1 km · Swanbourne railway station, 1.7 km · Showgrounds railway station, 3.4 km · Cottesloe railway station, 600 m
- Port Hedland → Cottesloe1329 km · quickest by air, 5h 54m · A$290–440
- 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 Cottesloe
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 Cottesloe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextRottnest Island is a short ferry ride from Fremantle, and a great place to go for a day or a week.
From Wikivoyage: Perth/Fremantle, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Cottesloe
Cottesloe is 11 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Claremontsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.8 km
- Dalkeithsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.8 km
- Swanbournesuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.8 km
- Mosman Parksuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.6 km
- Peppermint Grovesuburb of Perth, Western Australia1.2 km