GLEN FORREST, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

'Glen Forrest'' is a suburb within the Mundaring Shire, south of John Forrest National Park, west of Mahogany Creek, east of Darlington, and north of the Helena River.
Originally known as ''Smiths Mill'' after a prominent founder citizen, it is currently named after the first Premier of Western Australia, Sir John Forrest.
The suburb is dissected by the disused railway formation of the original route of the Eastern Railway - which is now known as the Railway Reserve Heritage Trail, and Nyaania Creek.
It has two commercial areas - one adjacent to, and just north of the former railway station site, and the other is at the intersection of Hardy Road and Great Eastern Highway.
Like Darlington to the west, Glen Forrest had at its earliest times a winery on the valley edge down which Hardy Road passes.

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★ Mundaring - A History of the Shire, Elliot, Ian, , , Mundaring Shire, 1983, ISBN 0-9592776-0-9

★ Life was meant to be here: community and local government in the Shire of Mundaring, Spillman, Ken, , , Mundaring Shire, 2003, ISBN 0-9592776-3-3