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Anlaby or Anlaby Station is a pastoral lease located about south east of Marrabel and north of Kapunda in the state of South Australia. The locality was first explored by Europeans in March 1838 by the party of Hill, Wood, Willis, and Oakden, who were scouting an overlanding route from the Murray. The station is the oldest merino stud in Australia and was settled in 1839 by John Finniss. The property was acquired in 1841 by Frederick Dutton, at which time it was at the frontier of European settlement. In the early days Anlaby extended from near Kapunda to Tothill's Creek occupying an area of with a length of and a width of . The neighbouring pastoralist to the west and north was W.S. Peter, while to the south was Bagot's ''Koonunga''. To the east was the Murray scrub. Aboriginal depredations on sheep resulted in a two-man mounted police station being established at Julia Creek 1842-46 to protect the Anlaby and Koonunga flocks. The property ran as many as 70,000 sheep and shearing lasted nine months employing 70 people. In 1843 a log hut was constructed for the manager Alexander Buchanan. The name of the run was also changed by Dutton from the Aboriginal name ''Pudna'' to Anlaby. Anlaby was the name of the Yorkshire village that his sister's husband hailed from.〔 By 1851 the size property had been reduced to with the loss of another so closer settlement could be made. Another from Anlaby was subdivided for wheat farming up until 1917. Returned servicemen were allocated another between 1918 and 1922. Frederick Dutton died in 1890 and left Anlaby to his nephew Henry Dutton who promptly carried out extensive improvements. In 1907 Henry purchased the James Martin & Co. foundry and workshops in Gawler. The stud was transferred in 1932 to Emily Dutton. The Anlaby Pastoral Company was formed in 1960 and took over control of the property. By 1968 the stud and property were acquired by the Mosey family. In early 2009 Andrew Morphett acquired Anlaby. The prolific author Geoffrey Dutton grew up at Anlaby and includes information about his ancestors in his 1985 book ''The Squatters''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Papers of Geoffrey Dutton )〕 ==See also== *List of ranches and stations 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anlaby Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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