Bickley, Western Australia

Bickley is a suburb located within the City of Kalamunda, in Perth, Western Australia.

[2] Before 1949 it was a stopping place on the Upper Darling Range railway.

It was originally known as "Heidelburg" or "Heidelberg",[3][clarification needed] but during World War I, Western Australian Government Railways and Tramways renamed it "Bickley" after a local pioneer Wallace Bickley.

[8] It is also one of the major meteorological stations within the Perth Metropolitan Area due to its length of time of operation and location on the Darling Scarp.

Bickley has one of the highest average annual rainfalls for the Perth metropolitan region, and it experiences cooler nights than the rest of Perth, meaning that Bickley has a microclimate.