Keilor, City of Brimbank, Victoria, Australia
Postcode: 3036
Description: Suburb
Location: 18 km north-west of Melbourne
Named: By squatter Watson after a place in angus, Scotland, where his father bred cattle. (Blake)
In about 1838 the first European settlements were established by pastoralists James Watson and Alexander Hunter. James Watson is thought to have named the area after a place called Keilor in Forfarshire (now known as Angus), Scotland where his father farmed a large property. (Wikipedia)
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