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History of metropolitan suburb names - L


The following information is a summary of origins for suburb names within the Perth metropolitan area. Please select the first letter of the suburb you wish to see:

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LAKELANDS

Located approx 6 km NE of Mandurah, this suburb is named because of a number of low lying swamps/lakes in the area. The suburb name was approved in 1990.


LANDSDALE

The suburb of Landsdale was approved in 1980. The name is taken from the main road through the area, Lansdale Road. The origin of the road name is not known, although it appeared on maps of the area as early as 1955.


LANGFORD

This name was submitted by the Shire of Gosnells in September 1966, having been chosen in collaboration with the State Housing Commission. The shire stated that Mr Langford was one of the oldest councillors on the road board - probably since 1925 - but had now retired and was a very old man. The name was approved in January 1967


LATHLAIN

Name derived from Lathlain Park Oval which was in turn named after Sir William Lathlain. The proposal for the renaming of parts of the localities of Victoria Park and Rivervale as Lathlain was suggested by the City of Perth, and was approved in 1981..Sir William Lathlain was Mayor of Perth 1918-23 and 1930-32, and also a member of the Legislative Council 1926-32.


LEDA

Leda is one of the Town of Kwinana suburbs named after a ship. The brig "Leda" brought settlers to the new colony in January 1830. Leda means "Swan", an appropriate name for a ship which brought colonists to the settlement on the Swan River. The suburb name was approved in 1969.


LEEDERVILLE

Leederville is named after William Leeder, the first landowner in the area. He arrived in the colony on the "Rockingham" in 1830, and in 1833 bought land near Lake Monger. Private subdivision began about 1890 and the expanding district was already known as Leederville in April 1895 when it was declared as a Roads Board District. It was gazetted as a municipality on the 3rd May 1896.


LEEMING

The name was suggested by the Melville City Council, and was approved in 1971. It originates from Leeming Road which was the southern boundary of the district. The name commemorates George Waters Leeming, a surveyor, who laid out the roads for the Jandakot Agricultural area in 1889. Leeming was born in 1857 in Melbourne and arrived here per the "Penola" in 1885 and married Margaret Ann Georgina Sweeting at Guildford in October 1889. He was a mining Surveyor in the Kimberley Goldfields in 1888 and later as a contractor and surveyor based at Guildford.


LESMURDIE

Like Kalamunda, the development of the "Lesmurdie" area is closely tied to the exploitation of the Jarrah forest in the region by the Canning Jarrah Timber Company Ltd. In 1897, Mr Archibald Sanderson, a Perth journalist commenced the acquisition of a number of these properties, with a view to building up a "rural retreat" and he named his property "Lesmurdie". Lesmurdie Cottage was a shooting-box in Banffshire, Scotland, near Dufftown and was let to Mr Sanderson's father for shooting. It was in memory of this cottage that Sanderson applied the name to his property.


LEXIA

A suburb in the Shire of Swan, located mostly in the Gnangara Pine Plantation, situated directly north of Gnangara Road. This name was derived from nearby Lexia Borefield (a local name) and Lexia Avenue. The name "Lexia" is also the name of a grape variety.


LOCKRIDGE

The suburb of Lockridge derives its name from a Swan valley property owned by the Hamersley family. The Hamersley's, a prominent colonial family owned a number of properties, and resided at Pyrton in what is now Eden Hill. Part of the Lockridge land became Pyrton Estate which the government developed for soldier settlement in the 1920's. The residential development in Lockridge was commenced by the State Housing Commission in 1969 when it purchased 240 acres for the purpose.


LYNWOOD

In November 1964, the Shire of Canning proposed that this area be named "Willetton" after Henry Willett of Willett and Co." Early landholders in the area. In August 1965 the Shire advised that the Realty Development Corporation Ltd had requested the name "Clovercrest Estate" but that neither party would object to the use of the name Lynwood instead of "Willetton". This amendment was approved in 1965 and the name "Willetton" was used for an adjoining locality.

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