A small lot of land in Brisbane’s west purchased by a man 130 years ago has been resumed by Brisbane City Council.

The 4181-square-metre lot is at 8C Sir Samuel Griffith Drive, Mt Coot-tha, and is understood to have been purchased by Mr Jans Sorensen in 1888.

The resumed land is within the JC Slaughter Falls picnic area at Mt Coot-tha. Credit:Must Do Brisbane

The council, which has been maintaining the land for several years, assumed Mr Sorensen was deceased and, because there was no known owner, would now take ownership.

Brisbane’s lord mayor Graham Quirk described the resumption of land as an “interesting one”.