Suburb of Perth, Western Australia
Lesmurdie
Lesmurdie is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Kalamunda.
It was established in 1897 by Archibald Sanderson, a politician and journalist, who began buying properties in the area from the Canning Jarrah Timber Company to build up a rural retreat and fruit-growing property. He named it after Lesmurdie Cottage, a shooting box near Dufftown, Scotland that his father had rented, on a property that was named "Lesmurdie" when its owners, the Leslie and Murdoch families, intermarried. It was officially gazetted on 8 June 1959.
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