Unwin's Special Survey

In 1841, Frederic Wright 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

^ Colonial Secretaries Office, Sydney (June 8, 1841), "Selections of Special Surveys", New South Wales Government Gazette (45): 784–785, retrieved 2010-09-19
^ Blainey, Geoffrey (1980). A History of Camberwell (Revised ed.). Melbourne: Lothian. ISBN 0-85091-124-9.
^ Lay, Maxwell (2003), Melbourne Miles: The Story of Melbourne's Roads, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, ISBN 1-74097-019-5
^ Victoria. Dept. of Crown Lands and Survey (1906). Bulleen, Counties of Evelyn and Bourke, Map RM 2741/244. Parish maps of Victoria.

[gazette_18410608-1] Colonial Secretaries Office, Sydney (June 8, 1841), "Selections of Special Surveys", New South Wales Government Gazette (45): 784–785, retrieved 2010-09-19

[Blainey-2] Blainey, Geoffrey (1980). A History of Camberwell (Revised ed.). Melbourne: Lothian. ISBN 0-85091-124-9.

[lay-3] Lay, Maxwell (2003), Melbourne Miles: The Story of Melbourne's Roads, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, ISBN 1-74097-019-5

[bulleen_parish_map-4] Victoria. Dept. of Crown Lands and Survey (1906). Bulleen, Counties of Evelyn and Bourke, Map RM 2741/244. Parish maps of Victoria.

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