Timeline
| 1818 | Lieutenant William Frederick Weston was promised 500 acres on Mullet Creek. He took possession of the land and named it 'West Horsley' after his home in Surrey. |
| 1826 | William Frederick Weston died at Horsley, aged 33 |
| 1830 | Elizabeth Weston (widow of Lt Weston) married Thomas Williamson |
| 1842 | 13th March 1842 a grant of land was issued by Governor Gipps to Augusta Brooks and Elizabeth Weston - William weston's daughters. |
| 1843 | Elizabeth Weston (daughter of Lt Weston) married Andrew Thompson |
| 1848 | Indenture of Partition was isssued between Richard Brooks and Augusta Brooks and Andrew Thompson and Elizabeth Thompson separating the land into two parcels. The Western portion was known as Horsley the eastern portion as West Horsley. |
| 1850 | Andrew and Elizabeth Thompson built Horsley Homestead on their portion of land, and continued to work this land until their deaths. |
| 1876 | Horsley was bought by John Lindsay who five years later purchased West Horsley and the name of the whole property became 'Horsley'. The property was worked by John Lindsay until his death in 1894. |
| 1894 | The property was again divided between George and John Lindsay. Horsley went to George and West Horsley to John. |
| 1900-1946 | Horsley was inherited by George Lindsay when he was 49, he worked it until his death in 1946. He was a leading farmer in the district, he was the first to send butter to Sydney by steamer, he had a cheese factory on the property and he built the first reinforced concrete silo in Australia |
| 1900-1932 | John Lindsay inherited West Horsley when he was 47 and he worked it as a dairy farm until his death in 1930. |
| 1932 | West Horsley was devised to Harold Thornbury Lindsay and Thomas Hilton Lindsay as tenants in common. |
| 1954 | Horsley was subdivided into smaller parcels of land |
| 1967 | Olive Doris Lindsay, Edith Evelyn, and Geoffrey Hilton Lindsay had possession of the western section of West Horsley until it was sold to Caldwell Estates Pty. Ltd. in 1967. Thomas had the eastern section until his death in 1964. |
| 1972 | Housing Commission resumed the Western Section of West Horsley for land for Public Housing, a large portion already being privately developed |
| 1981 | Land subdivided for affordable housing by Landcom |
| 1987 | Draft Strategid Plan released to develop West Dapto as a residential area |
| 1989 | Council competed preparation of and placed on exhibition a Draft Local Environmental Plan and Supporting Local Environmental Study for an 1,100 residential lot release over an area of approximately 180 hectares located north and south of Bong Bong Road. Horsley - Stage One Release |
| 1993 | Council exhibits 13 applications for development of 580 lots of land, the first of more than 1300 lots planned for the new Horsley estate |
| 1994 | The Highcroft estate on Bong Bong Road is released and the 500 home sites make up almost half of the 1400 lots in the new Horsley release. |
| 1998 | Purrungully Park is purchased by Council - it is an area of natural bushland and is home to protected plant species. |
| 1999 | Orchid Glen subdivision incorporating 68 building blocks is released by Landcom. |
| 1999 | 1999 to date Horsley is still being expanded as part of the development of West Dapto as a major residential area of the Illawarra. |
Last Modified: 14/11/2008
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