List of streets in Bayswater, Western Australia explained

Bayswater is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia which was established in the 1880s. This article is a list of streets in Bayswater, along with the origin of their names. Some common street name origins in Bayswater are places in the United Kingdom, particularly England, early residents of Bayswater, soldiers in World War I, and former councillors.

List of streets in Bayswater

Streets starting with A or B

Name	Date built	Name origin	Notes	Image
Adelia Street		Adelia Fleming, landowner. The family sold the land under the condition that a street be named after her.^[1]
Adelphi Street		Adelphi, London.
Alderhurst Crescent
Aldwych Street		Aldwych, a street in London.
Almondbury Street		Almondbury, England.
Anzac Street	1900s	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC).	Formerly known as Bauer Street.
Anzac Terrace	1960s	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC).^[2]	Formerly known as Railway Terrace and Gilbert Road.
Armada Street	1950s
Arundel Street		Arundel, England.
Ashfield Parade	^[3]	Ashfield District, Nottinghamshire, England.^[4]	The suburb of Ashfield, Western Australia was later named after Ashfield Parade.
Aughton Street	1900s	Probably one of the places named Aughton in England.
Avenell Road	1900s
Babington Crescent		Possibly someone named Babington or a place in England.
Bassendean Road	1900s	Perth suburb of Bassendean.
Batey Lane		James Earl Batey, councillor on the Bayswater Roads Board in the 1930s.	Formerly part of Thomas Street.
Bay View Street
Beard Elbow	2004	Robert H. Beard, chairman of the Bayswater Road Board in the 1900s.^[5]
Bedford Street
Beechboro Road North		Perth suburb of Beechboro, which Beechboro Road leads to.	In 1984, Beechboro Road was split in two by the construction of Tonkin Highway. Beechboro Road South is a local distributor in parts, with a speed limit of .
Beechboro Road South
Belham Street
Bellevue Street	Late–1990s		Street name has existed since before 1952, but the street was not constructed until the late–1990s.
Bowden Street	1880s–1890s	Possibly someone named Bowden or a place in England.
Broadway	1900s	Named due to the road's large width. It was built that way so that carriages could turn without being unhitched.
Brooks Drive	1990	Harry and James Brooks, early residents of Bayswater. Alfred William Brooks, soldier at Gallipoli and the Middle East.
Burnside Street	1880s–1890s	Robert Burnside, early resident of Bayswater.	Formerly known as Swan Street west of Coode Street.

Streets starting with C or D

Name	Date built	Name origin	Notes	Image
Cabramatta Street		Possibly Cabramatta, New South Wales.
Cannon Street
Cantlebury Road	1900s
Catt Court	Early–1990s	Alfred Clifford Catt, early resident of Bayswater.	Formerly part of Burnside Street, split off in the early–1990s.
Cedar Street
Chalkley Place	Mid–1970s	Probably someone named Chalkley.
Christian Court
Clavering Road	1900s	Clavering, Essex, a village in England.
Clune Street		Matthew Daniel Clune, who leased an estate in Bassendean.
Cobden Street	1900s
Collier Link	2017		Constructed in 2017 as a realignment of Collier Road near Tonkin Highway. The road has a single point urban interchange with Tonkin Highway. It is a local distributor road with a speed limit of .
Collier Road	1900s–1910s	Philip Collier, Premier of Western Australia from 1924 to 1930.	Local distributor with a speed limit of . Part bypassed by Collier Link is a local road with a speed limit of .
Colwyn Road
Coode Street	1880s	John Coode, who wrote two reports on the proposed construction of Fremantle Harbour.	Local distributor with a speed limit of .
Coombe Street		Probably somewhere in England named Coombe.
Constance Street
Copley Street		Benjamin Copley, resident of Bayswater in the 1890s, owner of a slaughterhouse, member of the Bayswater Roads Board, and chairman in 1901. His former house is located on the corner of Copley and Coode Streets.
Cosentino Place
Cossom Place		W. Cossom, soldier killed in World War I. Named in 1968.	Formerly part of River Road.
Cox Street
Crowther Street	1900s	Frederick Powell Crowther, a director of Gold Estates of Australia Pty Ltd, a company that bought and subdivided land in Bayswater and across Perth.
Cullen Street
Dandy Place	Early 1990s
Darby Street		S. T. Darby.
Digwood Close
Donald Square		Donald Traylen, relative of William Traylen, landowner in the 1890s who subdivided his land, naming various roads after family members.
Donald Way		Donald Traylen, relative of William Traylen, landowner in the 1890s who subdivided his land, naming various roads after family members.
Drake Street	1880s–1890s	William Henry Drake, early landowner in Bayswater and treasurer of Western Australia from 1838 to 1848.
Drynan Street	1900s
Duchess Court	Late–1990s
Duffy Street		Jarlath Stephen Duffy
Dunkley Place			Formerly known as Fashoda Street.
Dunstone Road	1988
Durham Road	1900s	Durham, England, a town in England.

Streets starting with E, F or G

Name	Date built	Name origin	Notes	Image
Elizabeth Street
Embleton Avenue		Perth suburb of Embleton, which was named after George Embleton, an early resident of Bayswater.	Embleton Avenue is a local distributor with a speed limit of .
Essex Street	1880s–1890s	Essex, a county in England.	Formerly known as Newtown Street west of Batey Lane.
Evans Place	Early–1960s
Farley Way		Possibly a place named Farley in England.
Foyle Road	1900s
Flinders Street
Flora Avenue
Focal Way	2018	Part of the theme of "Centrality".	The Tonkin Highway Industrial Estate has a theme of "Centrality" due to its good location near Perth and next to Tonkin Highway.
Francis Street
Frew Court	Early–1990s
Frinton Street		Frinton-on-Sea, a town in England.
Garratt Road	1890s	Mary Anne Garratt, wife of William Traylen, landowner in the 1890s who subdivided his land, naming various roads after family members. Alternatively, W. J. Garratt, who was a resident of the area from 1899 to 1934.	Garratt Road is a main road which forms part of State Route 55, and has a speed limit of . It crosses the Swan River at the Garratt Road Bridge.
Georgina Street
Gilbert Street
Gilders Place
Gobba Court	Mid–1970s	Gobba Lake, which is in turn named after Gino Gobba, owner of a dairy in the 1930s.
Goldmead Street
Goongarrie Street		Possibly named after Goongarrie, Western Australia, an abandoned town north of Kalgoorlie, which is an aboriginal word of unknown origin.
Gordon Street
Grafton Street	1880s–1890s	Grafton Estate, an early land sale in the area.	Formerly named Crofton Street.
Grand Promenade	1880s–1890s		Grand Promenade is a main road which forms part of State Route 55. It has a speed limit of .
Grey Street	1900s	George Grey, who explored the north west coast of Western Australia.	Formerly known as Walker Road, which was named after Thomas Walker, who was a politician, and Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1924 to 1930.
Grosvenor Road		Possibly a place named Grosvenor in England.
Guildford Road	1830s	Perth suburb of Guildford, which the road leads to.	Guildford Road is a main road which forms part of State Route 51. It has a speed limit of .

Streets starting with H, I or J

Name	Date built	Name origin	Notes	Image
Hackbridge Way		Hackbridge, a suburb of London.
Haddrill Street
Halliday Street		Henry Thomas Halliday and his family, residents of Bayswater from the 1880s onwards. Their house, Halliday House is located nearby at 114 King William Street.
Hamilton Street	1890s	John Hamilton, early landowner in Bayswater.
Hardy Road		Hardey Family.
Hayward Street
Henrietta Street	1900s
Hester Street
Higgins Way	Late–1980s
Hill Street	1890s	Street is located on a hill. Could also be possibly named after R.V. Hill, chairman of the Bayswater Road Board in the 1940s.	Formerly known as Kennedy Street.
Hobart Street	1880s–1890s
Horley Street		Horley, a town in England.
Hotham Street	1880s–1890s
Headley Place		Possibly a place named Headley in England.
Hudson Street	1900s	T.A. Hudson, councillor on the Bayswater Road Board in the 1930s.	Formerly known as Main Road.
Ingles Place	2010
Inner Court	2018
Irvine Street
Jackson Street		Cyril Jackson, first Chairman of the West Guildford Roads Board (predecessor to the Town of Bassendean), and prominent educationalist in Western Australia.
Jacqueline Street
James Street
John Street

Streets starting with K, L or M

Name	Date built	Name origin	Notes	Image
Katanning Street		Town of Katanning, Western Australia.
Kenilworth Street		Kenilworth, a town in England.
Kenmure Avenue
Kitchener Avenue	1890s
King Street
King William Street	1880s	King William IV of the United Kingdom.	Local distributor with a speed limit of in parts. In 2018, the speed limit was lowered to in the Bayswater town centre.^[6]
Langley Road	1900s
Lawrence Street	1880s–1890s	Stephen Lawrence, arrived in Bayswater in 1902. His three sons served in World War I.
Leake Street	1880s–1890s		Leake Street was converted to a "bike boulevard" in 2017, with a speed limit of .^[7]
Letizia Lane	2006
Little Street
Lovell Way
Mahdi Street
Maurice Street	1900s
May Street			Formerly known as Queen Street. May Street was converted to a "bike boulevard" in 2017, with a speed limit of .
McGann Street
McWhae Gardens	Late–1990s	Douglas McWhae, medical officer.
Meakins Court		Robert James Meakins, owner of a dairy on Coode Street.
Memorial Drive	1997	Memorial to residents from the Bayswater area who served in World War I, World War II, Korea, Malaya, Bornea or Vietnam.^[8]	Speed limit is .
Menmuir Place	Mid–1990s	Edward Menmuir, chairman of the Bayswater Road Board in the 1940s and 1950s.
Mills Avenue		James Mills, resident of Bayswater in the 1880s and owner of a nursery.
Milne Street	1900s	Charles Williamson Milne, a director of Gold Estates of Australia Pty Ltd, a company that bought and subdivided land in Bayswater and across Perth.^[9]
Moojebing Street		Moojebing, Western Australia, a locality near Katanning. Wesley Maley, who subdivided land in Bassendean, owned land at Moojebing.
Mooney Street		P.J. Mooney, Bayswater Road Board councillor in the 1910s.
Moore Street		Samuel Moore, builder and resident of Bayswater around the 1920s.
Morey Crescent	Late 1990s.
Munt Street		C. A. Munt, civil servant.
Muriel Street
Murray Street	1890s.	David Murray, resident of Bayswater in the 1880s and owner of Murray's Dairy. His house still stands at 7 Murray Street.

Streets starting with N, O or P

Name	Date built	Name origin	Notes	Image
Nanhob Street
Neville Street		R Nevill Roberts, a director of Gold Estates of Australia Pty Ltd, a company that bought and subdivided land in Bayswater and across Perth.
Newton Street	1962	F. R. Newton. Arrived in Bayswater in 1888. Killed in World War I.
Nexus Way	2018	Part of the theme of "Centrality".^[10]	The Tonkin Highway Industrial Estate has a theme of "Centrality" due to its good location near Perth and next to Tonkin Highway.
Nolan Place	Early–1990s
Norco Way
Nutfield Street
Olfe Street
Paddington Street		Paddington, a district of London.
Paterson Street	1880s–1890s
Pearson Street		John Pearson Learmonth, who owned land in the area.
Percy Road	1890s	Percy Traylen, relative of William Traylen, landowner in the 1890s who subdivided his land, naming various roads after family members.
Piaggio Court	1900s–1910s
Pickett Street		George Squire Birkley Pickett, who was the second chairman of the Bayswater Roads Board.
Purley Street		Purley, London, a district of London.

Streets starting with Q or R

Name	Date built	Name origin	Notes	Image
Queen Street	1890s
Radius Loop	2018	Part of the theme of "Centrality".	The Tonkin Highway Industrial Estate has a theme of "Centrality" due to its good location near Perth and next to Tonkin Highway.
Railway Parade	1880s–1890s	Midland railway line, which Railway Parade runs alongside.	Formerly known as Railway Crescent,^[11] but was renamed in 1946.
Rain Place	Early–1990s
Raleigh Road	1900s		Formerly known as Raleigh Street.
Raymond Avenue
Redlands Street
Reman Road	1900s		Formerly known as Reman Street.
Rio Street
River Road
Roberts Street	1900s
Rose Avenue	1880s	Rose Smeed, wife of William Leonard Smeed, owner of a nursery in Bayswater during the 1880s and 1890s.
Rosebury Street		Lord Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1894 to 1895.
Rosher Place
Rotary Place	2004
Rugby Street	1900s	Rugby School, a school in England that prospector Harry Anstey attended.	Formerly known as Johnson Road.
Rundal Street

Streets starting with S, T, U or V

Name	Date built	Name origin	Notes	Image
Salisbury Street	1900s	Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom several times in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Sang Place	Early–1990s
Shaftesbury Avenue		Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury
Shalford Street		Probably one of the places named Shalford in England.
Short Street
Skew Road	1900s
Skippers Row	2019		Road name has existed since before 1952, but the street was not constructed until 2019.
Slade Street	1880s–1890s	A family that settled in Guildford in the 1840s.
Spencer Street
Station Street		A Latitude Station was located on the street, at what is now Hamilton Reserve.
Stone Street	1880s	Frederick Stone, resident of Bayswater in the 1880s and owner of a nursery. He was a member of the Bayswater Roads Board, and Secretary of the board from 1898 to 1904. He played a prominent role in lobbying the Board of Education for a primary school to be built in Bayswater. His house still stands at 78 Stone Street.^[12]	Formerly known as Mary Street, named after Mary Traylen, who was a relative of William Traylen. He was a landowner in the 1890s who subdivided his land, naming streets after family members.^[13]
Sutherland Street		Sutherland, place in Scotland.
The Strand		Strand (also known as the Strand), a street in London.
Thomas Street			Thomas Street was originally the name of Birkett Street, a street in Bedford just north of Thomas Street. The current Thomas Street was an unpaved laneway up until, when it was sealed and turned into a road.
Toms Court	Early–1990s	Merv Toms, councillor on the Bayswater Road Board from 1944 to 1971, member of parliament for Maylands, Bayswater and Ascot between 1956 and 1971.^[14]
Tonkin Highway	1984	John Tonkin, former Premier of Western Australia.	Tonkin Highway was opened north of Railway Parade on 11 July 1984, and south of Railway Parade on 16 April 1988.
Toowong Street	1880s–1890s		Formerly known as Kooroong Street.
Traylen Road		William Traylen, landowner in the 1890s who subdivided his land, naming streets after family members.^[15]
Union Street
Veitch Street

Streets starting with W, X or Y

Name	Date built	Name origin	Notes	Image
Vincent Street	2018	George Vincent, Chief Draughtsman in the Lands Department . Road has been named since before 1916, but was not constructed until 2018.
Walter Road East	1880s	There are conflicting reports as to the origin of the name. One option is Walter Browne, who was born in Bayswater in 1903 and lived there for some time.^[16] ^[17] Another possibility is Edgar Walter Hamer, who worked for Gold Estates, a property development company, and was Chairman of the Perth Road Board (precursor to the City of Stirling).^[18] Another possibility is Walter Padbury, who was a pioneer and politician.	Formerly known as Government Road.
Walton Street		Possibly a place named Walton in England.
Warren Avenue
Whatley Crescent		John and Anne Whatley, residents of what would become Bayswater briefly in 1830.	Known as South Crescent until,^[19] as the road was shaped like a crescent.
White Street
Whittaker Street		John Whittaker, Bayswater Road Board councillor in the 1910s.	Formerly known as Little Street.
Wholley Street	1900s
Wicks Street	2018	Charles R. Wicks, who was a foundational member of the West Guildford Roads Board.
Williamson Street		R.A. Williamson, 1960s business owner in Bayswater.
Wills Street			Formerly known as Bourke Street.
Wisbech Street	1890s	Wisbech, town in England.
Witley Street		Witley, village in England.
Winifred Road	1900s
Wotton Street			Formerly part of Broadway.
Wotzko Court	2000	Christian John Wotzko, councillor on the Bayswater Roads Board in the 1950s.
Wright Crescent		Bert Wright, Shire of Bayswater councillor and local business owner. Bert Wright Park is also named after him.
Wright Street
Wyatt Road
Young Street		I. J. Young and A. Young. Killed in World War I.

See also

• List of streets in Perth
• List of streets in East Perth
• List of streets in West Perth
• List of streets in Crawley and Nedlands
• List of streets and paths in Kings Park
• List of streets in Kardinya, Western Australia

Notes and References

1. Book: Sewell . Margaret . Bayswater ... and 75 years . 1972 . Shire of Bayswater . 35, 42–43.
2. Web site: Local street and roads named in honour of war veterans . John Forrest Secondary College . 14 November 2021 . 15 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211115023326/https://www.johnforrest.wa.edu.au/upload/pages/2015042495715/local-street-and-roads-named-in-honour-of-war-veterans.pdf?1481873937 . live .
3. Web site: Perth and surrounds suburb names . Landgate . 4 September 2020 . 30 June 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170630005943/http://www0.landgate.wa.gov.au/maps-and-imagery/wa-geographic-names/name-history/historical-suburb-names . live .
4. Web site: Street Name Origins in the Town of Bassendean . Town of Bassendean . 25 November 2021 . 3 June 2020 . 5 March 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210305135806/https://library.bassendean.wa.gov.au/Profiles/library/Assets/ClientData/TOB_Local_street_names_for_LSC_website_2020_v2.pdf . live . 22 .
5. Web site: White . Simon . The best, worst (and even worse) of Perth street names . The Sydney Morning Herald . 3 September 2020 . 8 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201108111139/http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/the-best-worst-and-even-worse-of-perth-street-names-20140528-zrq3f.html . live .
6. Web site: Lim . Kristie . Bayswater Council slows down speed limit to 40km/h in town centre . Perth Now . 5 September 2020 . 25 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211125100046/https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/eastern-reporter/bayswater-council-slows-down-speed-limit-to-40kmh-in-town-centre-c-856291 . live .
7. Web site: Bayswater to Morley Bike Boulevard . Engage Bayswater . 9 October 2020 . 25 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210125133301/https://engage.bayswater.wa.gov.au/bayswater-bike-boulevard1 . live .
8. Web site: Centennial Memorial Drive . Monument Australia . 3 September 2020 . 25 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211125100026/https://www.monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/multiple/display/60077-centennial-memorial-drive . live .
9. Web site: The Real Gold . Gold Estates Holdings . 30 April 2021 . 156 . 4 March 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210304061153/https://goldestates.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/The-Real-Gold.pdf . live .
10. Web site: Proposed New Road Names - Subdivision of former CSBP site . Engage Bayswater . 3 September 2020 . 17 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200317074729/https://engage.bayswater.wa.gov.au/proposed-new-road-names-subdivision-of-former-csbp-site . live .
11. Web site: Western Australia Post Office Directory Map of Perth & Fremantle and their suburbs. . State Library of Western Australia . 3 September 2020 . 30 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210430084647/https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b4584692_2 . live .
12. Web site: 78 Stone St Bayswater . Heritage Council of WA . 3 September 2020.
13. Web site: Bayswater Thematic Framework April 2020 . City of Bayswater . 3 September 2020 . 8 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210408085603/https://www.bayswater.wa.gov.au/online-services/forms-and-publications/reports/2020/city-of-bayswater-thematic-framework-april-2020-(1 . live .
14. Web site: John Mervin Toms . Parliament of Western Australia . 27 September 2020 . 12 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200812061839/https://parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(Lookup)/99976A64F11D9706482577E50028A80C?OpenDocument . live .
15. Web site: Heritage Council of Western Australia. Heritage Council of Western Australia. Register of Heritage Places – Assessment Documentation: Garratt Road Bridge. Government of Western Australia. 26 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141226025317/http://inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Public/Content/PdfLoader.aspx?id=6080874c-e7fa-445c-abe5-0528de0803df&type=assessment. 26 December 2014. dead. PDF. March 2010.
16. Book: May . Catherine . Changes they've seen : the city and people of Bayswater 1827-2013 . 2013 . City of Bayswater . Morley, W.A. . 9780646596082.
17. Web site: Heritage Assessment . City of Vincent . 5 June 2021 . 5 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210605072901/https://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/Profiles/library/Assets/ClientData/40_Albert_-_Heritage_Assessment_September_2017.pdf . live .
18. Web site: Origin of street names within the City of Stirling . 55 . City of Stirling . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402200741/http://survey.stirling.wa.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/7623152E-BC93-450F-8E87-529AFE7D993C/0/CityofStirlingStreetNameOrigins.pdf . 2 April 2015 . February 2008.
19. Web site: Bayswater Heritage Survey March 2020 . City of Bayswater . 27 September 2020 . 8 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210408084713/https://www.bayswater.wa.gov.au/online-services/forms-and-publications/plans-and-strategies/2020/local-heritage-survey-march-2020 . live .