Kealba

Worth seeing in and around Kealba

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Maribyrnong River Viaduct

   The Albion Viaduct, officially the Maribyrnong River Viaduct, and also known locally as the Quarter Mile Bridge, is a trestle viaduct across the Maribyrnong River and Maribyrnong River Trail that carries the Albion–Jacana railway line, located in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It is located near the E J Whitten Bridge, and is almost 400 metres long.

   1.9 km · railway bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Brimbank Park

   Brimbank Park is a 328-hectare metropolitan park located in Keilor East, a north-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Established in 1976 on the banks of the Maribyrnong River, approximately 15 kilometres north–west of the Melbourne city centre, the park is managed by Parks Victoria.

   1 km · park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Tompsett Stadium

   Knights Stadium is an Australian association football stadium in Sunshine North, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Built in 1989, it is used by the Melbourne Knights as a home ground in the NPL Victoria competition, and previously in the National Soccer League.

   3 km · Australian soccer stadium · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Old Iron Bridge, Keilor

   The Keilor Iron Bridge, also known as the Old Iron Bridge, Keilor and the Basket Bridge, is a wrought iron girder footbridge across the Maribyrnong River, between Keilor and Keilor East, in the City of Brimbank, located in the outer north-western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1868, on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the bridge carried the Calder Highway until 1984, and was used for local road traffic following completion of the Calder Freeway bypass of Keilor.

   2 km · heritage-listed footbridge bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Overnewton

   The Overnewton complex is a heritage-listed former homestead and its former gatehouse, located in Keilor, in the City of Brimbank, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The former homestead has been used as a function and events venue since c. 1961; and the former gatehouse as a community centre since a similar time.

   3.8 km · Heritage-listed homestead and gatehouse in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Keilor Hotel

   The Keilor Hotel is a hotel located at 670–674 Old Calder Highway, in Keilor, in the City of Brimbank, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1848 on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the hotel was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 14 February 2002 in recognition of its historical and architectural significance; and was also added to the non-statutory and now defunct Register of the National Estate on an unknown date.

   2.3 km · heritage-listed hotel in Keilor, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Keilor archaeological site

   The Keilor archaeological site was among the first places to demonstrate the antiquity of Aboriginal occupation of Australia when a cranium, unearthed in 1940, was found to be nearly 15,000 years old. Subsequent investigations of Pleistocene alluvial terraces revealed hearths about 31,000 years BP, making Keilor one of the earliest sites of human habitation in Australia.

   4 km · Australian archaeological site in Victoria · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kealba

Airports

Melbourne (MEL), 8 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 46 km

Stations

Ginifer, 2.8 km · Keilor Plains, 3.2 km

• Geelong/Melbourne → Kealba

  20 km · quickest by road, 46 min · A$3.5–4.5
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  611 km · quickest by air, 4h 9m · A$170–260
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• Adelaide → Kealba

  639 km · quickest by air, 4h 26m · A$180–270
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