Bejoording is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia

Western Australia

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The first Europe

Europe

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an to visit the area was George Fletcher Moore

George Fletcher Moore

George Fletcher Moore was a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one [of] the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite"...

 who explored the area in 1836. Moore recorded the Aboriginal

Indigenous Australians

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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.