[4] The first European owner of most of the land was Major Alfred Hornbrook,[5] whose Mount Pleasant run stretched as far east as Godley Head.

A small land parcel of 25 acres (10 ha) near present-day Nicholson Park belonged to Charles Church Haslewood, who died in May 1858 when his hunting gun discharged while he looked down the barrel.

[3] The land was purchased by R. M. Morten, and after his death, his sons had Scarborough subdivided into 65 sections by July 1911.

Patterson purchased all the land in the triangle formed by Scarborough Road and Flowers Track, and had it resurveyed into 41 sections, twice the number of the Morten brother survey.

[10] Scarborough, comprising the statistical areas of 7026596–599, which also include Te Onepoto / Taylors Mistake, covers 1.17 km2 (0.45 sq mi).