Hester, Western Australia

:otheruses4|Hester, Western Australia|the character Hester Prynne|The Scarlet LetterInfobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Hester
state = wa


caption =
lga = Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes
postcode = 6254
pop =
est = 1898
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Blackwood-Stirling
fedgov = Forrest
dist1 = 262
location1= Perth
dist2 = 7
location2= Bridgetowncoord|-33.909|116.161|type:city(50)_region:AU-WA_scale:50000|format=dms|display=title

Hester is a small town in the South West region of Western Australia, 7km north of Bridgetown on the railway.

It was gazetted a townsite in 1899, and was originally a siding on the Donnybrook to Bridgetown railway, opened in 1898. The town derives its name from the nearby Hester Brook, a name first recorded by surveyor John Forrest in 1866. Hester Brook is named after Edward Godfrey Hester, an early settler (late 1850s) of the Bridgetown district. [LandInfo WA|c|H|2007-06-08]

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