Pastoralists
European settlement of the valley came in waves. First came the pastoralists led by William Henry Walsh. He claimed the Milton Run in July 1853 then added the Radley and Weitalaba Runs. When the first official land survey was undertaken in 1868 it shows Milton Run occupying 659 square miles (1,710 km2) of the Boyne Valley heartland.
The present parishes of Milton, Weitalaba, Radley, Degalgil, and Pemberton are the names of leases held by Walsh. Bompa is the name given to the second station formed when Milton was divided into two in 1871 and Rule is the name of the original settler on Nevertire.
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