Mendham's Point is a locality near the present day

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Colaba Colaba (; or ISO 15919, ISO: Kolābā) is a part of the city of Mumbai, India. It is one of the four peninsulas of Mumbai while the other three are Worli, Bandra and Malabar Hill. During the Portuguese rule in the 16th century, the island was ...

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. Until 1760, the English buried their dead at Mendham's Point.

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, Governor of Bombay, had planned extensive fortifications for Bombay from

Dongri Dongri is a port city in the Mira-Bhayandar municipality of Thane district, situated just north of Gorai, Mumbai. The word ' Dungaree' (worker's overalls worn in Britain) has its origin in Dongri due to this genre of garment monolithically be ...

in the north to Mendham's Point in the south.

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This township offers insight into the city's past
Neighbourhoods in Mumbai {{Mumbai-geo-stub