Keilor

Worth seeing in and around Keilor

5 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
   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.

   2.5 km · park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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.

   1.1 km · Australian archaeological site in Victoria · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   1.5 km · heritage-listed footbridge bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   1.2 km · Heritage-listed homestead and gatehouse in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   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.

   1 km · heritage-listed hotel in Keilor, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Keilor

Airports

Melbourne (MEL), 5 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 48 km

Stations

Keilor Plains, 3.8 km

• Geelong/Melbourne → Keilor

  21 km · quickest by road, 43 min · A$3–4
  GuideToday
• Hobart (Cambridge) → Keilor

  613 km · quickest by air, 4h 3m · A$160–250
  GuideToday
• Adelaide → Keilor

  639 km · quickest by air, 4h 20m · A$170–270
  GuideToday
• From anywhere

  The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
  Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

No local-transport research exists yet for Keilor

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Keilor. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Keilor – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.