Shenton Park
Shenton Park is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Nedlands and City of Subiaco and 4 km (2.5 mi) west of the central business district.
Shenton Park is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Nedlands and City of Subiaco and 4 km (2.5 mi) west of the central business district. Its postcode is 6008. The suburb is named after the park that it contains, Shenton Park, which was named after George Shenton who originally owned the land that is now the suburb of Shenton Park.
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Worth seeing in and around Shenton Park
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.
- 01University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia is a public research university in Crawley, Western Australia, Australia. UWA was established in 1911 by an act of the Parliament of Western Australia.
2.6 km · university in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 02Edith 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.
4 km · university in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 03Kings Park
Kings Park is a 400.6-hectare park overlooking Perth Water and the Perth central business district, Western Australia. The park is a mixture of grassed parkland, botanical gardens and natural bushland on Mount Eliza with two-thirds of the grounds conserved as native bushland.
2.5 km · park and botanical gardens in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 04Karrakatta Cemetery
Karrakatta Cemetery is a metropolitan cemetery in the suburb of Karrakatta in Perth, Western Australia. Karrakatta Cemetery first opened for burials in 1899, the first being that of wheelwright Robert Creighton.
1.4 km · cemetery in Perth, Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Galup
Galup, formerly Lake Monger is a large urban wetland on the Swan Coastal Plain in suburban Wembley, Western Australia, close to the suburbs of Glendalough, Mount Hawthorn, Leederville and West Leederville. Located less than 5 kilometres from the Perth central business district and situated alongside the Mitchell Freeway, it runs approximately north-west to south-east towards the Swan River and consists of 70 hectares of mainly open shallow water, with an island, Monger Island, of 1.3 hectares in the south-west corner.
3.8 km · lake in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 06Mueller Park
Mueller Park or Müller Park, formerly known as Kitchener Park, is a park in Subiaco, Western Australia, situated next to Bob Hawke College between Perth Modern School and Subiaco Oval. It originally comprised the land area which included Subiaco Oval and in the early 1900s housed tennis, croquet, bowls, cricket and football clubs.
3.1 km · park in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 07Jualbup Lake
Lake Jualbup, formerly the Shenton Park Lake, is a freshwater lake located in Perth, Western Australia.
600 m · lake in Perth. Western Australia · Wikipedia - 08Mount Eliza
Mount Eliza is a hill that overlooks the city of Perth, Western Australia and forms part of Kings Park. It is known as Kaarta Gar-up and Mooro Katta in the local Noongar dialect.
2.9 km · hill in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 09Bold Park
Bold Park is a 437-hectare urban bushland area around Reabold Hill in the suburb of City Beach, in Perth, Western Australia. It is located 8 kilometres directly west of the Perth central business district, its western border less than one kilometre from the Indian Ocean.
3.6 km · botanic garden in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 10Parliament House
Parliament House is located on Harvest Terrace in West Perth, Western Australia. It is the home of the Parliament of Western Australia, including the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly.
4 km · house of parliament for State of Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shenton Park
- Airports
- Perth (PER), 15 km
- Stations
- Leederville railway station, 3.9 km · West Leederville railway station, 3.1 km · Daglish railway station, 1 km · Shenton Park railway station, 100 m · Subiaco railway station, 2.3 km
- Port Hedland → Shenton Park1324 km · quickest by air, 5h 42m · A$280–420
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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 Shenton Park
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 Shenton Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA paper ticket purchasable from ticket machines at train stations and ferry jetties, and from bus drivers.
- Get aroundA ferry service operates between Elizabeth Quay in the city and Mends Street Jetty in South Perth.
- Get aroundElizabeth Quay train station is adjacent to the ferry terminal.
- Get aroundLocal Bicycle Routes (a series of on-road routes and some suburban off-road sections that run through parks).
- Go nextIt's a favourite place for day trips and overnight getaways from Perth, and once the home of Bushranger Moondyne Joe.
From Wikivoyage: Perth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Shenton Park
Shenton Park is 5 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Leedervillesuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.7 km
- Subiacosuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.1 km
- Crawleysuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.4 km
- Wembleysuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.7 km
- West Leedervillesuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.4 km
- Claremontsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.3 km