Where is Tambellup?

Tambellup is located on the Southern Highway:
• 317 km south east of Perth
• 120 km north of Albany

For Fast Facts pm Tambellup, click here.

What is Tambellup like?

The town of 670 people is in the heart of a mixed grain/sheep farming belt. The community maintains strong links with its pioneering past, with descendants of some of the original settlers still living and farming in the district and, in some cases, on the original farm selection.

Tambellup also has strong links with Noongar culture and there are many significant sites in the area, especially around the Gordon River.

There are a number of heritage trails and old buildings of interest in the town.
There is a range of services in Tambellup. There is a supermarket, tavern, service station, bank, ATM and telecentre. See our Tambellup Fast Facts for details.
A little bit of history 
The meaning of this Aboriginal name is not known, although one source gives it as "place of thunder"(from Toombellanup).

The area around Tambellup was first settled by pastoralists in the late 1840s, and in 1849 the Surveyor General, John Septimus Roe, when passing through the area, referred to Morrison's south west station at "Tambul-yillup".

The area was later settled by the Norrish family, and the spelling commonly used for the place then was "Tambellelup". When the Great Southern Railway was opened in 1889 a station was established and named Tambellup. Tambellup was gazetted a townsite in 1899.

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