Place Names Register Extract

Thorngate Road

Extract date: 08/11/2025

Name	Thorngate
Type Designation	Road
Place Id	8039
Place Type	Road
Status	Registered
Date Registered	23 February 1979
Locality / Suburb
	Holtze
	Robertson Barracks
Local Government Area
	Litchfield Council
History/Origin	Named after William and John Bartley Thorngate of Gosport, Hampshire, England who with Emmanuel Churcher applied for a land in the Northern Territory in 1864 as a result of the South Australian colonisation of the Territory. William and John Thorngate died in 1867 and 1868 respectively and Emmanuel Churcher in 1887, and as a result of a 1889 court decision the applications passed to WE Churcher who was subsequently issued title to a large tract of land in Palmerston (now Darwin) and the surrounding Hundred of Bagot.

Register & Gazettal information

Date	Gazettal	Comment
23/02/1979	NTG8
16/04/2008	NTG 15	South-easterly extension

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