Bejoording is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of

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. The first

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an to visit the area was

George Fletcher Moore George Fletcher Moore (10 December 1798 – 30 December 1886) was a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one fthe key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite" (Cameron, 2000). He conducted a number of exploring ...

, who explored the area in 1836. Moore recorded the Aboriginal name of the area as Bejoording. The land was earmarked to be developed as a townsite in 1839 and left vacant for that purpose. In 1856 the first lots were sold and the townsite was gazetted in 1899.

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