Identity area
Reference code
AU WA S978
Title
CANCELLED PUBLIC PLANS (DISTRICTS) - PRE STANDARD SERIES
Date(s)
- 1856-01-01 - 1880-01-01 (Creation)
- 1839-01-01 - 1903-04-29 (Accumulation)
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Maps
Status
Context area
Name of creator
AU WA A58 - SURVEY OFFICE
(1829-01-01 - 1870-01-01)
Administrative history
Name of creator
AU WA A59 - SURVEYOR-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT
(1870-01-01 - 1873-01-01)
Administrative history
Name of creator
AU WA A60 - CROWN LANDS AND SURVEYS DEPARTMENT
(1873-01-01 - 1890-01-01)
Administrative history
Repository
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Scope and content
These plans illustrate the alienation and subdivision of land in the settled districts of the Colony during the mid-nineteenth century.
Each subseries of plans within this series is grouped within distinct consignments.
These subseries reflect the fifteen land districts or regions described in the catalogue.
- Avon District plans, various scales (consignment 4916);
- Avon District, "miscellaneous" plans (consignment 4917);
- Canning Murray plans (consignment 5005);
- Cockburn Sound plans (consignment 4918);
- East & Kent & East plans, 80 chain (consignment 4919);
- "E" (East) plans, 80 chain (consignment 5022);
- East District plans, various scales (consignment 5020);
- "E" (East) plans, 300 chain (consignment 5021);
- Hampton Plains, various scales (consignment 4920);
- Kent, various scales (consignment 5159);
- Kojonup, various scales (consignment 4921);
- Melbourne, various scales (consignment 4922);
- Nelson, various scales (consignment 4923);
- North, 80 chain 1876-79 (consignment 5023);
- North, 80 chain 1879-87 (consignment 4924);
- North, 200 chain (consignment 5024);
- North, 640 chain pre-1879 (consignment 5158);
- North, 500 chain post-1879 (consignment 5112);
- Plantagenet, various scales (consignment 4925);
- Sussex, various scales (consignment 4926);
- Swan, various scales (consignment 4927);
- Victoria, various scales (consignment 5018);
- Victoria, 80 chain (consignment 4928);
- East Victoria, 600 chain (consignment 4563);
- Wellington, 80 & 40 chains (consignment 4929);
- Williams, various scales (consignment 4930).
The plans are filed according to their Item-ID numbers within each consignment. The six digit numbers under Item Title are tally numbers assigned by the authors of the "Catalogue of Cancelled Public Plans of Western Australia".
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Alphanumeric
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing access (legacy)
Open access
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Finding aids
For a detailed description of individual plans within this series please see the "Catalogue of Cancelled Public Plans of Western Australia"' (edited by Andre Mali), Volume 1 Part 1.1.1. available at the State Records Office Search Room.
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Name access points
- AU WA A60 - CROWN LANDS AND SURVEYS DEPARTMENT (Creator)
- AU WA A59 - SURVEYOR-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT (Creator)
- AU WA A58 - SURVEY OFFICE (Creator)
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Archivist's note
Range Control Symbol = Avon1 - Williams14
Copies: Digital copies of these plans are available online - choose the appropriate Record Item and then click on the link at "Digital Copy".
Copies: Digital copies of these plans are available online - choose the appropriate Record Item and then click on the link at "Digital Copy".