Pickering Brook is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

, located within the Shire of Kalamunda

Shire of Kalamunda

The Shire of Kalamunda is a Local Government Area in the eastern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about east of Perth's central business district. The Shire covers an area of , much of which is state forest rising into the Darling Scarp to the east...

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Prior to 1949 it was a stopping place on the Upper Darling Range Railway.

It was named after nearby Pickering Brook. The brook is named after an early settler, Captain Edward Picking whose name was sometimes recorded as Pickering. The suburb of Pickering Brook was officially created on 12 January 1973. Part of it was formerly known as Carilla.

Like nearby areas such as Karragullen

Karragullen, Western Australia

Karragullen is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Armadale. Its postcode is 6111.Prior to 1949 it was a stopping place on the Upper Darling Range Railway....

, Pickering Brook is primarily made up of family run orchards.

The suburb was seriously under threat in December 2004 from a bushfire.

In June 2008 - the previously named Pickering Brook National Park - associated with the locality - was named Korung National Park