Dendy's Special Survey
In 1841, Henry Dendy purchased 8 square miles (21 km2) of land approximately 12 km south-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.
Dendy's Special Survey formed the basis for the settlement of Brighton. It covered the area now bounded by North Road; South Road; on the west by the Port Phillip Bay; and on the east by East Boundary Road. It includes: all of the Melbourne suburbs of Bentleigh, Brighton East, Ormond; and parts of Brighton, Bentleigh East and McKinnon.
The Special Survey regulations determined that the land should:
As the alignment of East Boundary Road is determined by the coastline, it does not lie on a survey Section line and therefore isn't aligned with the Melbourne one-mile (1.6 km) survey grid.
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