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Tonebridge, Western Australia

locality in the Shire of Boyup Brook, Western Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ55448675 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tonebridge is a rural locality and small town of the Shire of Boyup Brook in the South West region of Western Australia.

Tonebridge is located on the traditional land of the Kaneang (also spelt Kaniyang) people of the Noongar nation.

The town of Tonebridge was gazetted in 1961, with the town named after its location, a bridge of the Boyup Brook-Cranbrook Road over the Tone River.

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“Tonebridge, Western Australia” enters the record as locality in the Shire of Boyup Brook, Western Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tonebridge, Western and Australia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tonebridge, Western and Australia.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q55448675. The first chronological checks are 1961.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tonebridge, Western Australia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.