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The town began as a service town for those travelling to the goldfields to the east of the town in the 1890s.

Merredin is known for agriculture. Around 40% of Western Australia’s wheat production comes from a 100km radius around Merredin. Sheep farming is also popular in the area, along with production of many grains other than wheat. Some attractions include the historic Cummins Theatre, Merredin Peak (northeast of the town centre), Merredin Railway Water Tower, two museums, an art gallery, the longest grain storage facilities in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the remains of military installations from the town's role as second line of defence, during World War II. Wildflowers and granite rocks also dot the landscape. Merredin was the location of number 4 pumping station of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.

• Population: 2850 1
• Postcode: 6415
• Location: 256 km east of Perth
• Main Roads: Great Eastern Hwy
• Radio Stations: FM: ABC RN (107.3 MHz), Hit 105.1 (105.1 MHz) and Vision Christian Radio (88.0 MHz). AM: ABC Great Southern (558 kHz), ABC Mid-West & Wheatbelt (531 kHz), ABC Pilbara (1215 kHz), ABC Radio Perth (720 kHz), ABC RN (612 kHz) and Triple M (1098 kHz)

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	Railway Water Tower: Old water tower for the Trans-Australian Railway on the Great Eastern Hwy at Merredin, April 2018. Image © Paul Rands

1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Merredin (State Suburb), 2016 Census QuickStats

Last updated: 08 Nov 2019 01:09

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