Ashfield is a residentual suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Town of Bassendean. The suburb is located along the Swan River. The Midland Railway line passes through the area and is serviced by the Ashfield railway station. The housing was orignally established as small collection of railway houses near the train line. In the late 1950's early 1960's the area experienced a small boom of housing (400 houses) mostly built by the then State Housing Commision partly funded by the sale of half the properties to individuals. In the late 1960's the State Housing started to reaquire some of those properties. During the late 1990's the suburb under went a revamp driven by the State Housing Commision then called Homeswest this occured inconjunction with the infill sewage project which was created to convert Perth homes from septic tanks and leach drains to mains sewage. They bulldozed houses on land where they had ajoining properties. For every three house removed five to seven were built in their place. The majority of these were sold off to low income and first home buyers. The now Deptarment of Housing and Works owns only about 5% of the houses in the suburb are now used as subsidised rental accomodation. Jump to: navigation, search Perth is the capital city of Western Australia. ... The Town of Bassendean is a Local Government Area of Western Australia, located in the Perth metropolitan area some seven kilometers east of the CBD. Bassendean is also a suburb within this local government area. ... View from Kings Park over Perth Water Location of the Swan River, with Canning River in light blue The Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth, in the south west of Western Australia. ... Midland Line is a suburban railway line in Perth, Australia. ... Ashfield Train Station, is a Transperth train station 9. ...

The deepest point of the Swan river up stream from Melville waters occurs in Ashfield. It was in this area the furtherest upstream recording of sharks occured with the catching of one in the late 1970's.