Carlisle is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its local government area is the Town of Victoria Park. History The suburb known as Carlisle today was originally settled as part of a land allocation to early Western Australian settlers after 1829. Swan Location 35 was granted to Henry Camfield and Canning Location 2 was granted to James Macdermott, and these land allocations made up the suburb as well as many of the surrounding suburbs. Despite several changes of land ownership in the area little development was made until after the 1890s. The neighbouring suburb of Victoria Park experienced rapid growth around this time that was mostly focused around Albany Road (later to become Albany Highway). This growth eventually spread East as part of the Bickford development. Bickford was a name chosen by real estate company Peet and Co (now Peet Limited) for the sale of residential land in the area. On 23 May 1919, a meeting of ratepayers in the area elected to change the name of the suburb to Carlisle. Bickford State School (renamed Carlisle Primary School in 1922) was opened in 1919, and this was followed by a Methodist church in 1927 and then a Catholic church in 1937. Other infrastructure soon followed. Geography Carlisle is bordered by Orrong Road to the north, Briggs/Planet/Kew streets to the east, Rutland Avenue and the Armadale railway line to the south, and Roberts Road to the west. The suburb is located within the "Bassendean Dunes" soil type of the Swan Coastal Plain and is mainly flat with occasional gentle undulations between its low areas in the west and its high areas in the east. The lowest point in Carlisle is 13.3m AMSL and located on Bishopsgate St at Koolbardi Park, while the highest point is 27.1m AMSL and located near the intersection of Raleigh Street and Briggs Street. Here, a minor ridgeline heads in a north/south direction connecting two other high points in Carlisle at 23.6m AMSL near the intersection of Planet Street and Cohn Street and 22.8m AMSL near the intersection of Mars Street and Mercury Street. The last remaining high point at 21.6m AMSL is located in the west-end of the suburb near the intersection of Weston Street and Archer Street. The high points in Carlisle offer glimpses of the nearby Perth CBD and Burswood skylines. Streets in Carlisle are constructed in the traditional grid formation representative of the