Fremantle walking tours and trails

The historic city of Fremantle, Western Australia has many walking tours and trails. A variety of books and pamphlets describe these trails. The walking through or around Fremantle is celebrated in at least one song, a poem, and recollections.

Books
Books from the 1960s such as Birch's are both "a handbook and official guide". The Education Department of WA published a guide in 1980.

David Hutchison's Fremantle Walks and his earlier book from 1986 provide a well based set of information about the features of Fremantle.

Specific sections of Fremantle such as the "West End" and other parts have been isolated in specific books such Seddon's 2000 publication Looking at an old suburb. In the 2000s, books such as Richard and Moira's Freo footsteps appeared.

Annual events
The local university, Notre Dame, holds its annual commencement walk around the streets of the West End of Fremantle.

City of Fremantle
The city has provided over time maps and guides to walking around Fremantle.

The City of Fremantle has engaged consultants to review the objects and subjects of tours and events, such as the 1995 report.

Fremantle Trails
The City of Fremantle has a set of Fremantle Trails ranging through a range of subjects:


 * C. Y. O'Connor trail
 * Convict trail
 * Discovery trail
 * Fremantle Cemetery trail
 * Fishing Boat Harbour trail
 * Hotels and Breweries walk
 * Waterfront trail
 * Writers walk
 * Freopedia Heritage Tour

Walking the City
David Hutchison's 2006 Fremantle Walks includes the following themed subjects with maps:


 * Victoria Quay
 * Arthur Head
 * The Esplanade and Boat Harbours
 * The West End
 * Market Street to the Cappuccino Strip
 * Kings Square
 * St Patrick's Basilica Precinct
 * Fremantle Prison
 * Memorial Park, Monument Hill

Other tours and guides
At various stages in Fremantle history, there have been events and special tours that have been isolated single events.

Also tourism promotion guides that do not identify specific trails have been published over decades as "what's on" and are basically advertising for businesses prepared to be included.

Walking tours
More recently organised tours are provided by providers such as Two Feet and a Heartbeat and other groups.

Freopedia
The Freopedia project installed QR coded-signs at significant historic buildings and sites throughout Fremantle, along the Freopedia Heritage Tour. The QR codes link to the Wikipedia articles about those buildings and sites.