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]

Portion of 1866 map of County of Bourke showing Elgar's and Unwin's Special Survey

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.

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[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.