Matheran

Matheran
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Presidency: Bombay
Coordinates:	18.9866°N, 73.2679°E
Altitude:	800 m (2,600 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Matheran
State/Province:	Maharashtra
Country:	India
Transport links
Matheran Hill Light Railway

Matheran was a hill station about thirty miles east of Bombay city

Matheran was discovered by Hugh Poyntz Malet, the then district collector of Thane district in May 1850. Lord Elphinstone, the then Governor of Bombay laid the foundations of the development as a future hill station. The British developed Matheran as a popular resort to beat the summer heat in the region.

See also seperate page Matheran Hill Light Railway

External links

• Matheran Wikipedia
• "Matheran: Riding into the Sunset" by Anurag Mallick and Priya Ganapathy. Posted October 25, 2012 on the authors’ website red scarab
• "Matheran and “The Mansion” – 1936" and "Matheran continued" (archive.org links) “Retroblog of Najm Tyabji (1930+)” He was an Indian engineer born 1912, who married Scottish Mona Knight.
• Photograph: The Matheran Light railway, Maharashtra theguardian.com

Historical books online

• "Matheran" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 17, page 219.
• Map of Matheran between pages 336 and 337,with description on page 337, A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.