Dendy's Special Survey formed the basis for the settlement of
Brighton
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. 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
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,
Ormond; and parts of
Brighton
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Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...
,
Bentleigh East
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...
and
McKinnon
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* Alexander "Alex" McKinnon (1895†...
.
[
The Special Survey regulations determined that the land should:][
*be at least five miles (8 km) from ]Melbourne
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: North Road runs east–west on the survey Section line five miles (8 km) south of Batman's Hill
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*have no more than two miles (3 km) of water-frontage: South Road runs east–west two miles (3 km) south of North Road
*have an area of eight square miles: so East Boundary Road runs north–south four miles (6 km) from the coast
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.
References
History of Melbourne
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