Hundred of Bagot (Northern Territory)
| Hundred of Bagot Northern Territory | |||||||||||||
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 Map of the hundred in 1872 | |||||||||||||
| Established | September 1871 | ||||||||||||
| County | Palmerston | ||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Bagot is the cadastral unit of hundred for the city of Darwin, Northern Territory and also encompassing the city of Palmerston. It is one of the 14 hundreds that were proclaimed in the County of Palmerston.[1] (although the map below shows 20 hundreds) It was named after John Tuthill Bagot, who was the Chief Secretary in the Strangways ministry of South Australia from 1868-1870.[2] The Hundred was enlarged in 1963 when the Governor-general revoked the Hundred of Sanderson and included this into Bagot, this was formerly located to the north of Bagot. Old maps of Darwin (formerly Palmerston) mention the Hundred of Bagot.[3] The hundred is divided into sections.
It is mentioned in various legal documents relating to land transactions, e.g. "sections 4258 and 4257 Hundred of Bagot" [4] It includes the LGAs of the City of Darwin, the northern part of the City of Palmerston and part of the north-western edge of the Shire of Litchfield. Bagot is a suburb of Darwin, which like the rest of the suburbs of Darwin, are part of the Hundred.
Note that there is also a Hundred of Bagot in South Australia; the South Australian hundred was named after Captain Charles H. Bagot, the father of John Tuthill Bagot.
