Thornlie
Thornlie is a large residential suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south-east of the city's central business district.
Thornlie is a large residential suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south-east of the city's central business district. It is a part of the City of Gosnells local government area. The Canning River runs through the northern side of the suburb. Since the 1950s the suburb has developed in approximately five stages; north-east Thornlie (1950s–60s), south Thornlie (1970s–80s), Crestwood (1970s), Castle Glen (1980s) and Forest Lakes.
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Worth seeing in and around Thornlie
3 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.
- 01Empire Ballpark
Empire Ballpark is a baseball stadium in Perth, Australia. It was built in 2004, with a seating capacity of 1500 and standing room for a further 2500.
1.7 km · baseball park in Perth, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 02Perth Shiva Temple
The Perth Shiva Temple, officially the Perth Hindu Temple, is a Hindu temple in Canning Vale, in Perth, Western Australia, dedicated to the god Shiva and his consort, the goddess Meenakshi. The temple is run by the Shri Shiva Devasthanam, a non-profit religious organisation, and was completed in the early 1990s.
2.6 km · Hindu temple in Canning Vale, Western Australia · Wikipedia - 03Woodloes Homestead
Woodloes Homestead was built in 1871 by architect Francis Bird. The homestead is situated on the banks of the Canning River in Cannington.
3.8 km · heritage listed building in Cannington, Western Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Thornlie
- Airports
- Perth (PER), 13 km
- Stations
- Kenwick railway station, 3 km · Maddington railway station, 2.9 km · Thornlie Station, 1.5 km · Nicholson Road Station, 1.9 km · Stokely railway station, 3.4 km
- Port Hedland → Thornlie1332 km · quickest by air, 5h 34m · A$270–410
- 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 Thornlie
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 Thornlie. 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 Thornlie
Thornlie is 15 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Gosnellssuburb of Perth, Western Australia4 km
- Maddingtonsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.5 km
- Langfordsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.5 km
- Huntingdalesuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.8 km
- Lynwoodsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.3 km
- Canningtonstate electoral district of Perth, Western Australia3.6 km