Unwin's Special Survey

In 1841, Frederic Unwin, a Sydney solicitor, purchased 5,120 acres or eight square miles of land approximately 10 km north-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The land was purchased from the Crown for one pound an acre under the terms of the short-lived Special Survey regulations.[1][2][3]

Unwin's Special Survey covered the area now bounded by the Yarra River (west), Koonung Creek (south), Church Rd (east) and Templestowe Road/Foote St/Reynolds Rd (north).[4] It includes all of the Melbourne suburb of Bulleen, most of Templestowe Lower and Doncaster and the parts of Templestowe

References

  1. ^ Colonial Secretaries Office, Sydney (June 8, 1841), "Selections of Special Surveys", New South Wales Government Gazette (Number 45): 784–785, http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1841&class=general&page_num=784&state=N&classNum=G45&searchCode=2060279, retrieved 2010-09-19 
  2. ^ Blainey, Geoffrey (1980). A History of Camberwell (Revised ed.). Melbourne: Lothian. ISBN 0850911249. 
  3. ^ Lay, Maxwell (2003), Melbourne Miles: The Story of Melbourne's Roads, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, ISBN 1-74097-019-5 
  4. ^ Victoria. Dept. of Crown Lands and Survey (1906). Bulleen, Counties of Evelyn and Bourke, Map RM 2741/244. Parish maps of Victoria. http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2741-244-sd-cd.