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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
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Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
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Australia. The land was purchased from the Crown for one pound an acre under the terms of the short-lived
Special Survey regulations.
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Unwin's Special Survey covered the area now bounded by the ]Yarra River
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The lower s ...
(west), Koonung Creek
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(south), Church Rd (east) and Templestowe Road/Foote St/Reynolds Rd (north).[
It includes all of the Melbourne suburb of ]Bulleen
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, most of Templestowe Lower and Doncaster
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and the parts of Templestowe
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[{{Citation
, last = Lay
, first = Maxwell
, title = Melbourne Miles: The Story of Melbourne's Roads
, place = Melbourne
, publisher = Australian Scholarly Publishing
, year = 2003
, isbn = 1-74097-019-5
]
History of Melbourne