3f35157d-75e1-44ad-a49e-8fcad149aec6 urn:uuid en UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-06-25T05:17:04 creation ISO 19115 2016 Sprents Book 3f35157d-75e1-44ad-a49e-8fcad149aec6 This is a seamless mosaic of the 76 pages of "Sprents Book" which was a survey of Hobart Town that was started on February 25th 1841. James Sprent was born in 1808. He was a graduate of Glasgow University who arrived in the Colony (Tasmania) in 1830. There are a number of reports which substantiate the fact that he was stationed in Hobart for various periods somewhere between circa 1837 to 1846, where on February 25th 1841 he undertook an extensive and large scale survey of the greater part of Hobart Town. The extent of that survey could best be described as extending from the Brooker Highway north to Burnett Street, south along Arthur Street to Knocklofty Terrace, east to DâArcy Street in South Hobart along the Sandy Bay Rivulet through to Battery Point around the Wharf area and back to the Brooker Highway. This was done between the time of his first attempt at a Trigonometrical Survey of Tasmania between 1833 to 1837 and on resumption some 10-years on, in 1847. Sprent produced a set of 76 street plans at {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[143.5, -44.0], [149.0, -44.0], [149.0, -39.0], [143.5, -39.0], [143.5, -44.0]]]} 143.5 149.0 -44.0 -39.0 HERITAGE-Any LAND-Cadastre LAND-Ownership View Dataset documentDigital HTML Unnamed resource documentDigital audio/basic