Boyup Brook is a town in the south-west of Western Australia, south-southeast of Perth and northeast of Bridgetown. The town lies on Kaniyang land within the Noongar nation. The name Boyup is derived from the name of a nearby pool "Booyup", an Aboriginal term meaning "place of big stones" (large granite outcrops common in the area) or "place of big smoke" (from burning the many surrounding grass trees). The town's economy is primarily agricultural. It is a Cooperative Bulk Handling receival site. History About 1839, John Hassell brought sheep and cattle from the eastern states of Australia via Albany, and acquired a lease of land along what would later become Scotts Brook, south of the current town site. Although he grazed this stock in the area, the leases did not become permanent, and Hassell later moved to Kendenup. In 1845, Augustus Gregory followed the Blackwood River from the junction of the Arthur and Beaufort Rivers downstream for about . He carved his initials and the date into a jarrah tree, approximately north-east of where the town now lies. That tree is now dead, but the stump and the markings remain. The stump – now known as the Gregory Tree – has been covered for preservation. The first permanent settlement in the area was a lease, south of the current town site, along what became known as Scotts Brook. This lease was granted to William Scott and his wife Mary ( Keane), who arrived in 1854, having travelled from Albany. They named the property Norlup, and in about 1872 built a new house that remains to this day (albeit with more recent extensions and renovations), and is now listed on the Heritage Council of Western Australia's register. In 1861 James George Lee Steere, in partnership with Mr J H Monger, took up a lease near the Blackwood River. Shortly afterwards, his wife Catherine and their baby son travelled from Bunbury to join him. In 1871 William Forrest moved into the area, to a farm called Dwalganup. By 1882 there were nineteen families in the area. In 1896 land was set aside for a future town and the Upper Blackwood Road Board district (which became the Shire of Boyup Brook in 1961) was created as a separate local government area. Boyup Brook was declared a town on 9 February 1900. The district had an area of , and in December 1900 an