Local Government
Armadale
Region
Metropolitan
Jarrah Rd Roleystone
Armadale
Metropolitan
Constructed from 1962
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| Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | |
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 01 Sep 2015 | Category 3 | |
| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 01 Dec 2008 | Category 3 | |
The place is an attractive urban park characterised by large expanses of lawn edged with mature eucalypt trees on raised embankments. The place is associated with Henry Cross, an early Roleystone orchardist, who, as well as being prominent in community affairs, obtained the land for Cross Park, which was later named in his honour. The place is valued by the community as a public park and as a venue for sporting and social events.
The place comprises a large urban park located on Jarrah Road, near the intersection with Wygonda Road, in Roleystone. A grassed football/cricket oval is at the centre of the park, with mature gum trees growing in the embankments that surround the oval, and a club pavilion overlooking the oval. The park contains a variety of other public recreational facilities including cricket nets, tennis courts, and netball/basketball courts, as well as various buildings and sheds.
Henry Garry George Vidgen Cross (1883-1923), an early Roleystone orchardist, was the first President of the Roleystone Parents & Citizens Association and was also instrumental in obtaining and developing a tract of bushland for community use, along Jarrah Road in Roleystone. The land was named Cross Park in his honour in 1962, and a recently installed plaque near the corner of Jarrah and Wygonda Roads commemorates his contribution to the community.
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| Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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| City of Armadale |
| Ref Number | Description |
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| No.80 | MI Place No. |
Urban Park
| Epoch | General | Specific |
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| Original Use | PARK\RESERVE | Park\Reserve |
| Present Use | PARK\RESERVE | Park\Reserve |
| General | Specific |
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| PEOPLE | Local heroes & battlers |
| SOCIAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES | Sport, recreation & entertainment |
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