Denham is the western most town in Australia (at the 113°32" East meridian of longitude. Located on the western coast of the Peron Peninsula it is 831 km north of Perth.

St Andrews Church (on the corner of Hughes and Brockman Streets) and The Old Pearlers Restaurant (on the waterfront at Durlacher Street and Knight Terrace) are both been built from coquina shell block - a shell aggregate (a kind of shell stone) which comes from Shell Beach near the town.