Editing Albury (section)

===British settlement===
Among the first [[Squatting (Australian history)|squatters]] to follow in the steps of the explorers and settle in the district were William Wyse and [[Charles Ebden]].

The first European buildings erected at the crossing place were a provisions store and some small huts. A survey for a town was commissioned in 1838 by Assistant Surveyor Thomas Townsend who mapped out Wodonga Place (the present Wodonga Place) as the western boundary, Hume Street as the northern boundary, Kiewa Street to the east and Nurigong Street to the south, with Townsend Street being the only other north–south road, and Ebden and Hovell Streets being the two other east–west roads. Townsend proposed the settlement be named 'Bungambrawatha ', the Aboriginal name for the area, but when his plan was eventually approved and published in the Government Gazette on 13 April 1839 the name had been changed to Albury.<ref name="GNBofNSW">{{NSW GNR|id=MnqwlM|title=Albury|access-date=16 November 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Indigenous Artefacts|url=https://www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au/leisure/museum-and-libraries/collections/local-and-social-history/indigenous-artifacts|access-date=24 December 2021|website=Albury City|date=4 September 2019|archive-date=24 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224002251/https://www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au/leisure/museum-and-libraries/collections/local-and-social-history/indigenous-artifacts|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Albury is said to be named after a village in [[Kent]], England which it apparently resembled,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55185386 |title=PLACE NAMES. |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]]|date=13 May 1964 |page=61 |via=Trove}}</ref> though that referenced publication seems incorrect since there is no Albury in Kent. More  plausible is Albury in adjacent Surrey, straddling the Tillingbourne river and a significant 18th century site of mills and industry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alburyhistory.org.uk |title=Home |website=Albury History Society |access-date=7 October 2021}}</ref>