Buttlejorrk, Victoria

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Buttlejorrk Parish Victoria
County:	Bourke
Cadastral units around Buttlejorrk Parish Kerrie Kerrie Kerrie Gisborne Buttlejorrk Parish Bolinda Yangardook Holden Bulla Bulla

Buttlejorrk is a parish of the County of Bourke located between Melton and Sunbury, in Victoria, Australia. It was named in 1839 by the surveyor William Darke. A township developed in the banks of the Kororoit Creek and was initially known as Aitken's Gap. By the 1890s it had commonly become known as Buttlejorrk.

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• Buttlejorrk, County of Bourke, NLA