Many of the older houses in the village were once estate cottages on the Thurlow Estate, now owned by the Vestey family, and date to the 16th century or earlier.
In 1914, Wave Hill Station was bought by Vesteys, a British pastoral company comprising a large conglomerate of cattle companies owned by Baron Vestey.
From the late nineteenth century it was run by the British pastoral company, Vesteys.
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Sir Edmund Vestey, 1st Baronet (1866–1957), English businessman, co-founder of Vestey Brothers and the Blue Star Line
Beginning as a stenographer for the Vestey Cold Storage Company in Chicago, Illinois, she rose through the ranks to become the chief auditor and troubleshooter for Vestey Brothers.
On 2 September 2006 he married Nina Vestey, a niece of the 3rd Baron Vestey, Master of the Horse.
John-Paul Clarkin, a successful polo player who took over the running of Mystery Creek Polo Club in New Zealand after the death of his father and is married to Nina (née Vestey) of an equally prestigious polo playing family based in Gloucestershire, England.
In 1914, following the Commonwealth taking over administration of the Northern Territory and railway, the line was extended to Emungalan, on the northern bank of the Katherine River to serve the pastoral industry and transport cattle to Vestey's Meatworks in Darwin.
His family seat is Stowell Park Estate in Gloucestershire, which was purchased in 1954 by the third generation Ronald Vestey and his brother Mark.
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Vestey's battle with the native Australian Gurindji people over working conditions and native land claims was chronicled in Paul Kelly's song, "From Little Things Big Things Grow" originally released on the 1991 Paul Kelly & The Messengers' album Comedy.