Fredrick Unwin's survey of land he purchesed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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