Place Names Register Extract
Bradshaw Terrace
Extract date: 05/06/2026
| Name |
Bradshaw |
| Type Designation |
Terrace |
| Place Id |
5371 |
| Place Type |
Road |
| Status |
Registered |
| Date Registered |
14 May 1969 |
| Locality / Suburb |
|
| |
Casuarina |
| |
Nakara |
| Local Government Area |
|
| |
Darwin City Council |
| History/Origin |
Named after Captain Joseph Bradshaw JP and his brother Fred of Bradshaws Run. Joseph Bradshaw was manager of an English company. He took up Hodgson Downs on the Roper Wollogorang in the Gulf and the Arafura in the North, at the mouth of the Goyder River, Arnhem Land. Fred Bradshaw was massacred by Aborigines and his grave is on top of a hill known as Bradshaws Tomb. Joe Bradshaw spent his later years on his station, Bradshaws Run. He died in 1916 and is buried in the old Palmerston Cemetery, Darwin. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date |
Gazettal |
Comment |
| 14/05/1969 |
NTG20 |
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