Kulikup is a rural

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and small town of the

Shire of Boyup Brook The Shire of Boyup Brook is a local government area located in the South West region of Western Australia, about southeast of Perth, the state capital. The Shire covers an area of and its seat of government is the town of Boyup Brook. Histo ...

in the

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region of Western Australia.

History

Kulikup is located on the traditional land of the

Kaneang The Kaneang are an indigenous Noongar people of the south west region of Western Australia. Country The Kaneang traditional lands enclosed some of territory. On the Upper Blackwood River. The eastern boundary was formed by the line that runs fr ...

(also spelt Kaniyang) people of the

Noongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the South West, Western Australia, south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton, Western Aus ...

nation. The locality is home to the state heritage-listed Norlup Homestead, constructed in 1872. European activities in the area dates back to 1839, when

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acquired a temporary lease of the area to stock it with sheep without actually settling there. In 1854, William Scott and his wife Mary () took up a lease and built a homestead, originally named "Rutherglen". Scott later questioned the local indigenous population about the original name of the area and was told it was Norlup, meaning "shady place" because of the trees surrounding fresh water pools, prompting him to rename the homestead. The town of Kulikup was originally established in 1910 as a siding of the Boyup Brook to Kojonup railway line and named "Culicup". A town site was gazetted in 1912, now under the name of "Kulikupp", which was amended to the current spelling in 1965. The name itself comes from the near-by Culicup Pool, was first recorded in 1892 and is of Noongar origin but the meaning is unknown. The former Kulikup School, built in 1917, was used as such until 1946, when it was relocated to the local sports ground and became the home of the Kulikup Tennis Club. In March 2002, the now

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building was relocated to the Boyup Brook Museum in Boyup Brook.

References

{{Towns South West WA Shire of Boyup Brook Noongar place names