Kelmscott is a southeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australian within the local government area of the City of Armadale.

It is 23 kilometres (14 mi) southeast of Perth along the Albany Highway.Kelmscott was one of four initial townsites established in the Swan River Colony.

It was named after Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, the birthplace of the first Anglican clergyman in the colony, Thomas Hobbes Scott (1783–1860).

Before European settlement, Kelmscott and the wider area was inhabited by the Whadjuk Noongars people, an Aboriginal ethnic group.

In 1836, a new track called King George's Sound Road was built from Kelmscott to Albany.

The event was specially arranged by the Public Transport Authority, whose Minister is also the member of parliament for the local electorate.

On 6 February 2011, a declared total fire ban day, Robert James Stevens, 56, an ex-policeman, was using an angle grinder at his home and started the fire on his private property adjacent to the Brookton Highway in the Roleystone / Kelmscott area.

[11] Stevens was charged under the Bushfire Act with one count of carrying out an activity in the open air that causes or is likely to cause a fire, and pleaded not guilty.

[21] As part of Metronet, level crossings over the Armadale Line in Kelmscott were closed and turned into underpasses.