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Taylors Lakes

Taylors Lakes is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km (12 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Brimbank local government area.

Taylors Lakes
Taylors Lakes · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Taylors Lakes is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km (12 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Brimbank local government area. Taylors Lakes recorded a population of 16,910 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Taylors Lakes

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
    Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, Sydenham

    The Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary is a Macedonian Orthodox cathedral church located in Sydenham, a suburb of northwestern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

    1.8 km · church in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gilson College

    Gilson College is a Christian school located in the Melbourne suburbs of Mernda and Taylors Hill, Victoria, Australia. It is a private co-educational early learning, primary, and secondary day school.

    3.9 km · independent primary and secondary school in Taylors Hill, VIC, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.7 km · Australian archaeological site in Victoria · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Watergardens Town Centre

    Watergardens Town Centre is a super regional shopping centre located in Taylors Lakes, 24 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It opened in 1997, and is owned by the Queensland Investment Corporation.

    1.8 km · shopping centre and homemaker complex in Taylors Lakes, 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.

    2.2 km · Heritage-listed homestead and gatehouse in Melbourne, 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.

Go there

Getting to Taylors Lakes

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 5 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 48 km
Stations
Watergardens, 1.9 km · Keilor Plains, 3.2 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Taylors Lakes
    25 km · quickest by road, 47 min · A$3.5–5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Taylors Lakes
    616 km · quickest by air, 4h 3m · A$160–250
  • Adelaide → Taylors Lakes
    634 km · quickest by air, 4h 20m · A$170–270
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Taylors Lakes

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 Taylors Lakes. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe route from Port Melbourne is slightly more convoluted and includes a ferry (see below for more details).

From Wikivoyage: Melbourne/Western suburbs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    657 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    706 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,596 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,076 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,193 km

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

Around it

Next door to Taylors Lakes

Taylors Lakes is 19 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Keilorsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.3 km
  • St Albanssuburb of Melbourne, Australia4 km
  • Sydenhamsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.6 km
  • Delaheysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.6 km
  • Keilor Downssuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.4 km
  • Keilor Lodgesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia900 m