Marrinup
Ghost town · Australia
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 4
- Coordinates
- -32.684, 115.991
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: The town was destroyed in the 1961 bushfires and the townsite is now used as a campground.
History
Marrinup is a rural locality and former town in the Peel region of Western Australia between Dwellingup and Pinjarra. Its local government area is the Shire of Murray. The town was destroyed in the 1961 bushfires and the townsite is now used as a campground. The ruins of the townsite are heritage listed. Little remains of the town other than an old bridge over Marrinup Creek and some wooden railway sleepers.