What’s in a name?

THE TOODYAY Shire seems to be re-naming some of the roads around town.
Two roads come to mind: Nunyle as it used to be named, now Nunile; and Long Forest Road, now Long Forrest Road.

Just on the Long Forest name, people would think because of the spelling now, it is named after a person.

In fact, my father Geoff Brockhurst said it was because the Hamersley family originally owned from Haseley Stud on the Toodyay-Bolgart road to their property approximately 10km out the Long Forest Road and it was all forest originally.

With regards to the Nunyle road if one was to put into Google Maps ‘Nunyle, Coondle WA 6566’ you will see there was an area called Nunyle.

I don’t have any more information but would like to know if we should be keeping the traditional names or not.

Mark A Brockhurst
Applecross