List of counties, parishes, and townships in Van Diemen’s Land. In 1850 Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) was surveyed, apportioned, and divided into counties, hundreds, and parishes, by proclamation, dated June 23, 1836. The proclamation said counties were “intended to contain as near as might be 40 miles square, hundreds, 100 square miles and parishes, 25 square miles but not to exceed or fall short of more than one-third part of such dimensions”.
DevonDorsetCornwall
WestmorlandSomersetGlamorganCumberland
KentBuckinghamPembrokeMonmouth
Post office + Police station ^ Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages
BridgenorthEcclestoneMailingMidhurstPhilips NortonSelborneSt. Michael’sStanley *+^StockportWellsWycombe
NorthallertonSeafordSelby
AshfordAvocaBeverleyBreadalbane *Break-o’DayBrentwoodBroomsgroveCastle CareyChesterfieldDeddingtonEgremontEvandale *EvercreechFingal *+^FonthillHaslemereLauncestonLymingtonMalvernPerthSt. AubynSt. Paul’sTrefusisUplandsWoodford
AbercrombieBandonBathurstBramberBrisbaneCadburyCampbeltonChatsworthChichesterCleveland *CornwallisDenbighDulvertonDurhamEast GrinsteadEldonEppingEskdaleExmouthGibbsGlenmoristonHillLennoxLincolnMaxwellMiltonOatlandsPackenhamPeelRainsburyRossSalisburySligoTierneyWincanton
CanningCarlton *ForcettSorell
AbergavennyAmherstFlorentineFortescueGuilfordKenmereLawrennyMalmsburyRochfordSt. Alban’s
AngleseaArgyleBrunyConinghamD’EntrecasteauxGlenorchy *HobartKingboroNew NorfolkQueenboroSutherlandUxbridgeWellington
AdelphiArcherCalstockCarrickCressyExtonLawrenceLittle HamptonLongfordQuambyRingwoodSillwoodWalkerWestburyWoodbridgeWoodside
ApsleyArundelBathBeaufortCambridgeClarence *DrummondDysartForbesGraftonGranthamHamiltonHenryHuntingdonJervisLansdowneLargoMelvilleNewickOrmaigPelhamRalph’s BayRutlandSomertonSpringhill *StaffaStradbrokeStrangfordUlvaVincentWallaceWintertonYarlingtonYork
GlastonburyEastbourneSt. Andrew’sSt. Cuthbert’s
Apsley (Apsley parish)Bayford (Springhill parish)Bellerive (Clarence parish)Bothwell (Grantham parish) *+^Brighton (Drummond parish) *+^Burnham (Cambridge parish)Dulcott (Forbes parish)Elderslie (Wallace parish)Enfield (Staffa parish)Hamilton (Hamilton parish) *+^Oatlands (Bath parish) *+^Picton (Dysart parish)Pontville (Melville parish)Richmond (Ulva parish) *+^Risdon (Clarence parish)Rokeby (Clarence parish)Shepton Montacute (Dysart parish)
Abercrombie (Abercrombie parish)Andover (Brisbane parish)Auburn (Chatsworth Hill parish)Campbelton (Campbelton parish) *+^Campbelton (Wincanton parish) *+^Cornwallis (Cornwallis parish)East Grinstead (East Grinstead parish)Grindelwald (Denbigh parish)Lincoln (Cadbury parish)Llewellyn (Salisbury parish)Maitland (Lennox parish)Oatlands (Oatlands parish) *+^Perth (Chichester parish) *Ross (Ross parish) *Tierney (Tierney parish)Tunbridge (Maxwell parish)
Sorell (Sorell parish) *+^
George Town *
Avoca (Avoca parish) *^Hadspen (Launceston parish)Launceston (Launceston parish) *+^Perth (Perth parish) *
Cumberland County
Burford (St. Alban’s parish)
Bridgewater (Wellington parish) *Hobarton (Hobart parish) *+^New Norfolk (New Norfolk parish) *+^New Norfolk (Wellington parish) *+^Newton (Hobart parish)Rugby (Sutherland parish)Summerleas (Kingboro parish)
Carrick (Carrick parish) *Deloraine (Calstock parish) *Longford (Longford parish) *+^Westbury (Westbury parish) *+^
Avoca (Glastonbury parish)Eastbourne (Eastbourne parish)
1 Post office, 2 Police station, 3 Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages,4 Visiting magistrate holds a court, 5 convict stations, 6 lighthouse, 7 signal stations, 8 Aboriginal establishment
Antil Ponds 1Bishopsbourne 1Brown’s River 1,5Cape Bruny 6Cascades 5Circular Head 1,3Clarence Plains 3Coal Mines 5Cocked Hat Hill 4Deal Island 6Emu Bay 1Falmouth 1Goose Island 6Green Ponds 1,4Gt. Swan Port 2,3Horton 2Huon 1,4Impression Bay 5
Iron Pot Island 6Jericho 1Jerusalem 1,4Kangaroo Point 1,4Lake River 1Low Head 6Lower Settlement 1Macq Plains 1Macq River 1Maria Island 1,5Morven 2,3Mount George 7Mount Lewis 7Mount Nelson 7Mt. Direction 7Nile Bridge 4Norfolk Island 1,3,5Norfolk Plains 1,2
Ouse Bridge 1,4Oyster Cove 8Point Puer 5Port Arthur 1,3,5Port Sorell 1,2,3Prosser’s Plains 1,2,3River Plenty 4Saltwater River 5Shannon River 4South Port 2St. Pat. Head 1Swan Island 6Tasman’s Penin 5Waterloo Point 1Windmill Hill 7Woolpack 4
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