page_title: Hundred of Bagot (Northern Territory)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hundred of Bagot (Northern Territory) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Palmerston county in the Northern Territory, containing Darwin.
context_page_description: The Hundred of Bagot is the cadastral unit of hundred for the city of Darwin, Northern Territory and the city of Palmerston. It includes the Local Government Areas of the City of Darwin, the northern part of the City of Palmerston and part of the north-western edge of the Shire of Litchfield.
context_section_description: Bagot is one of the 14 hundreds that were proclaimed on 14 September 1871 by the Governor of South Australia in the County of Palmerston (although the map below shows 20 hundreds). It is believed to be  named after John Tuthill Bagot, who was the Chief Secretary in the Strangways ministry of the Government of South Australia from 1868-1870.
  The Hundred was enlarged in 1963 when the Governor-General of Australia, William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, revoked the Hundred of Sanderson, formerly located to the north of Bagot, and included this into Bagot. Old maps of Darwin (formerly Palmerston) mention the Hundred of Bagot.
caption: 1886 map showing hundreds in Palmerston. The Hundred of Bagot since 1963 also includes the area shown here as the Hundred of Sanderson.
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