Australian Towns & Cities
Western Australia: Grass Patch
Incorporating photos and Information
from Michael Greenslade's former Australian Towns, Cities and Highways
site
Grass Patch is a small town on the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway which was once a watering hole point for the Esperance-Norseman Railway.
Established in 1923, Grass Patch was named after a nearby farm of the same name that had been settled around 1896 and was renowned for bountiful crops and good grass.
- Population: 133 1
- Postcode: 6446
- Location: 783 km southeast of Perth 78 km north of Esperance
- Main Roads: Coolgardie-Esperance Hwy
- Radio Stations: FM:
ABC RN (100.7 MHz) and Hit 102.3 (102.3 MHz). AM: ABC Esperance (837 kHz), ABC Goldfields (648 kHz), ABC Great Southern (558 kHz), ABC Mid-West & Wheatbelt (531 kHz), ABC RN (612 kHz) and Triple M (747 kHz)
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Town Centre:
Lookin north in the Grass Patch town centre, April 2018.
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Post Office & Store:
Grass Patch Post Office and Store, April 2018.
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Former Post Office & Store:
Former Grass Patch Post Office and Store, April 2018. Image © Paul Rands |
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Former Post Office & Store:
Former Grass Patch Post Office and Store, April 2018.
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Grass Patch Tavern:
Grass Patch Tavern on Coolgardie-Esperance Hwy (NR1), April 2018.
Image © Paul Rands
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1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Grass Patch SSC, 2016 Census QuickStats
Last updated: 02-Aug-2020 22:44
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