Click here to play a video about Binningup. Map - Binningup As early as 1849 M.W Clifton wrote of riding to Binningup and early diaries of Benjamin Piggott (Senior and Junior) from Springhill, 1860s to 1880s, referred to the property as Binningup, which was an aboriginal name. Early in the century the Jones family from Springhill occasionally walked over to swim at Binningup Rocks. It was near here that a Japanese ship carrying bags of wheat from Bunbury ran aground in the 1930's. Many bags of wheat were lost overboard in order to re-float the ship. Binningup Beach is the popular title given to this area today. 
Binningup's land is bounded by Myalup to the north, Wellesley to the east and southwards is joined by Map Location Seven, now the Shire locality of Parkfield. Westwards flows the Indian Ocean. The history of the region is not extensive but it is considered unique. Its uniqueness arises from the fact that its establishment began through the commitment of a group of people who had their mind set on achieving a goal; worked out a way to finance it and brought it to a successful conclusion. It was an exercise in Community spirit without outside assistance or gain. The history began after the Second World War when a group of Uduc (a farming settlement near Harvey) Progress Association members recalled their days of voluntary war service in the V.D.C (Voluntary Defence Corp) Homeguard. Their service had been to defend the coastline from a lookout point at Binningup. While they took their turn at watching the coastline they noted the changing face of the bay. They could visualise their families swimming safely within its shelter. Here too was a clear channel through which to take a boat to the open sea or to fish from the shore with line and sinker. Fish were plentiful and the possibilities caused much debate among those young men as they watched the tides ebb and flow. In the year 1950 after meeting together, two men, Ted Holthouse and Gordon Goodson, were delegated to approach the then Harvey Road Board for an opinion. Two years of debate and assessment passed between the two parties before the Association members obtained permission to begin. Mr Reg Nettle, then Manager of the Harvey National Bank, voluntarily drew up a plan to finance the project. The plan was simple, decreeing that to become a shareholder a person would be prepared to pay by instalments, as needed, a total sum of 55 pounds ($110.00). Also each person would make a commitment to work in their leisure time on the clearing and construction of a road some three miles in length from the Old Coast Road to Binningup Beach. It is with thanks to these early pioneers with vision that Binningup is the place we know today. (Shire of Harvey 1895-1995: Proud to be 100 p.75)
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