Place Names Register Extract

Webb Street

Extract date: 29/03/2024

Name Webb
Type Designation Street
Place Id 24571
Place Type Road
Status Registered
Date Registered 14 March 2014
Locality / Suburb  
  Muirhead
Local Government Area  
  Darwin City Council
History/Origin Named after Beecher Noel Webb, who was one of the first legal practitioners in Alice Springs, practising there between 1932 and 1937. He persuaded Thomas Wells, a Supreme Court Judge of the Northern Territory, to conduct the first circuit there in 1935. He died during WWII.

Register & Gazettal information

Date Gazettal Comment
14/03/2014 Date added to the Register
19/03/2014 NTG G11

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