Back in 2001, I approached what was then called the WA Heritage Committee, to ask if there was any likelihood that the booklet on the ‘York to Goldfields Heritage Trail’ in the WA Heritage Trails Network – Bicentennial Project for Community Participation series of books, might be updated. My husband and I have attempted to follow the trail, using my copy of the books, and found that most of the plaques at the various points along the trail were still there. The book however was outdated as some of the landmarks had been changed. I then asked for permission to publish a new booklet incorporating the plaques if they had survived. The did give me a letter of permission which now I suppose will be null and void as the name of the body is now ‘State Heritage’ (I think!). It was a retirement project for my husband and myself.
Some of the Heritage Trail books.
Some of the Heritage Trail books.
The W.A. Heritage Trails Network is a network of heritage trails and places in Western Australia that was initially funded by the Australian Commonwealth/State Bicentennial Commemorative Program for the 1988 Australian Bicentenary. In many cases local communities and councils collaborated with the National Trust of Australia (WA) to research and develop local trails.
An example of one of the trail plaques.
The following is a list, which I have attempted to make of the books that were published:-
Albany Heritage Trail – titled First settlement Heritage Trail
Arthur Head Heritage Trail (Fremantle)
Augusta-Busselton Heritage Trail
Broome Heritage Trail
Central South Heritage Trails
Dumbleyung Historic Schools Trail
Roe Heritage Trail
Darkan Heritage Trail
Albert Facey Heritage Trail
South Central Wheatbelt Heritage Trail
Moorumbine Heritage Trail
Williams Heritage Trail
Brookton Pioneer Heritage Trail
Narrogin Heritage Trail
Wagin Heritage Trail
Gascoyne Pilbara and Kimberley Heritage Trails
Shark Bay Heritage Trail
Emma Withnell Heritage Trail
Karratha Heritage Trail
Chichester Range Camel Trail
Port Headland Heritage Trail
Pigeon Heritage Trail
Canning Stock Route
Kurangie Stock Route
Wyndham Port Heritage Trail
Broome Heritage Trail
Old Halls Creek Heritage Trail
Lightfoot Heritage Traillurrujarri Heritage Trail
Argyle Heritage Trail
Guildford to York Heritage Trail
Midwest and Goldfields Heritage Trails
Monsignor Hawes Heritage Trail
De Grey-Mullewa Stock Route
Perenjori-Rothsay Heritage Trail
Greenough Walkaway Heritage Trail
Geraldton Heritage Trail
Cue Heritage Trail
Sandstone Heritage Trail
Chapman Valley Heritage Trail
Dongera Heritage Trail
Cattlin Creek Heritage Trail
Historic Gwalia Heritage Trail
Eastern Goldfields Heritage Trail
Midlands Heritage Trails
New Norcia Heritage Trail
Moora Heritage Trail
Koorda Heritage Trail
Toodyay Heritage Trail
Northam-Katrine Heritage Trail
York Heritage Trail
Kellerberrin Heritage Trail
QuairadingDistrict Heritage Trail
MerredinPeak Heritage Trail
York to Goldfields Heritage Trail
Farming Heritage Trail
GuilfordtoYor Heritage Trail
Perth
Central Perth Heritage Trail
East Perth Heritage Trail
Northbridge Heritage Trail
West Perth Heritage Trail
Subiaco Heritage Trail
South coast Heritage Trail
Swan River Heritage Trail
Swan Valley Heritage Trail
Toodyay Pioneer Heritage Trail
Yarloop Heritage Trail
York Heritage Trail
York to Goldfields Heritage Trail
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Moya, I would just like to say how very much I enjoy your stories on Facebook. I look for them and read every word. You bring our history to life in a very knowledgable way. My Mother spent some time in the Goldfields as a youngster many of her father;s brothers were there also. (Surname Boylan). So your stories of there are of particular interest. Thank you and all the best.
Trish Parkinson