5-769: Munglinup is a small town located in the Shire of Ravensthorpe in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia . The town lies on the South Coast Highway between Ravensthorpe and Esperance and close to the Munglinup River . The river for most of its course defines the boundary of the Esperance and Ravensthorpe shires. At the Oldfield Estuary , the boundary goes to the eastern shore. The word Munglinup
10-531: Is Noongar in origin and means where young people met their in-laws. The name first appears on maps made by the Dempster brothers, early settlers of the area in 1868. The region was first opened up for farming in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, the community asked for a townsite between Esperance and Ravensthorpe to be considered. The townsite was surveyed in 1961 and gazetted in 1962. The surrounding areas produce wheat and other cereal crops. The town
15-470: Is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling . Shire of Ravensthorpe The Shire of Ravensthorpe is a local government area in the southern Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia , about halfway between the city of Albany and the town of Esperance and about 530 kilometres (329 mi) southeast of the state capital, Perth . The Shire covers an area of 13,551 square kilometres (5,232 sq mi), and its seat of government
20-521: Is the town of Ravensthorpe . The Phillips River Road District was gazetted on 9 November 1900. On 1 July 1961, it became the Shire of Ravensthorpe under the Local Government Act 1960 , which reformed all remaining road districts into shires. As of the 2003 election, the Shire is divided into three wards: The towns and localities of the Shire of Ravensthorpe with population and size figures based on
25-777: The most recent Australian census : As of 2023, 122 places are heritage-listed in the Shire of Ravensthorpe, of which one is on the State Register of Heritage Places , the Metropolitan Hotel in Hopetoun. In September 2021, Shire of Ravensthorpe chief executive Gavin Pollock was sacked after being accused of spending almost $ 55,000 of shire money on a sex worker. A report tabled in the Western Australian State Parliament on 22 September 2021 alleges that Mr Pollock
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