Dendy's Special Survey

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.

[1][2] The Special Survey regulations determined that the land should:[2] 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.

This Melbourne-related article is a stub.

1866 map of County of Bourke. Dendy's Special Survey is south-east of Melbourne on the coast.