Quindalup is a townsite and

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in the South West region of

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. It is situated along Caves Road between

Busselton Busselton is a city in the South West (Western Australia), South West region of the States and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia approximately south-west of Perth. Busselton has a long history as a popular holiday destin ...

and Dunsborough on

Geographe Bay Geographe Bay is in the south-west of Western Australia, around southwest of Perth. The bay was named in May 1801 by French explorer Nicolas Baudin, after his ship, ''Géographe''. It is a wide curve of coastline extending from Cape Natur ...

. At the 2021 census, Quindalup had a population of 1,488. The area was the site of one of the earliest timber industries in the state. Several timber mills were constructed in the area and the products were exported utilising a

jetty A jetty is a man-made structure that protrudes from land out into water. A jetty may serve as a breakwater (structure), breakwater, as a walkway, or both; or, in pairs, as a means of constricting a channel. The term derives from the French la ...

that had been constructed on the coast in the 1860s. The first recorded use of the name was on a timber mill owned by Henry Yelverton and McGibbon. Land was reserved by the government in the 1870s and in 1899 local fishermen petitioned for a town to be declared along the beach front. Lots were surveyed the same year and the town was gazetted in 1899. The name is Aboriginal in origin and means ''place of the Quenda''. The town was situated close to a shallow inlet, where the jetty was built, which was used to load timber sent up by a tramway, to boats that would ferry the timber to boats anchored a few kilometres offshore. The only parts of the original settlement that are left are a slab cottage group, known as Harwoods Cottage, which was constructed around 1860 and associated with the original timber mill. The cottage group is composed of a cottage, gaol, post office, telephone exchange and

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. The buildings were almost derelict until restorations planned in 1998, commenced in 2000 and the operation was opened for business in 2000 with accommodation opening in 2004.

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