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”.

Tasmanian Counties

Northern

Devon
Dorset
Cornwall

Midland

Westmorland
Somerset
Glamorgan
Cumberland

Southern

Kent
Buckingham
Pembroke
Monmouth

Tasmanian Parishes

Post office + Police station ^ Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages

Devon County

Bridgenorth
Ecclestone
Mailing
Midhurst
Philips Norton
Selborne
St. Michael’s
Stanley *+^
Stockport
Wells
Wycombe

Dorset County

Northallerton
Seaford
Selby

Cornwall County

Ashford
Avoca
Beverley
Breadalbane *
Break-o’Day
Brentwood
Broomsgrove
Castle Carey
Chesterfield
Deddington
Egremont
Evandale *
Evercreech
Fingal *+^
Fonthill
Haslemere
Launceston
Lymington
Malvern
Perth
St. Aubyn
St. Paul’s
Trefusis
Uplands
Woodford

Somerset County

Abercrombie
Bandon
Bathurst
Bramber
Brisbane
Cadbury
Campbelton
Chatsworth
Chichester
Cleveland *
Cornwallis
Denbigh
Dulverton
Durham
East Grinstead
Eldon
Epping
Eskdale
Exmouth
Gibbs
Glenmoriston
Hill
Lennox
Lincoln
Maxwell
Milton
Oatlands
Packenham
Peel
Rainsbury
Ross
Salisbury
Sligo
Tierney
Wincanton

Pembroke

Canning
Carlton *
Forcett
Sorell

Cumberland County

Abergavenny
Amherst
Florentine
Fortescue
Guilford
Kenmere
Lawrenny
Malmsbury
Rochford
St. Alban’s

Buckingham County

Anglesea
Argyle
Bruny
Coningham
D’Entrecasteaux
Glenorchy *
Hobart
Kingboro
New Norfolk
Queenboro
Sutherland
Uxbridge
Wellington

Westmorland

Adelphi
Archer
Calstock
Carrick
Cressy
Exton
Lawrence
Little Hampton
Longford
Quamby
Ringwood
Sillwood
Walker
Westbury
Woodbridge
Woodside

Monmouth County

Apsley
Arundel
Bath
Beaufort
Cambridge
Clarence *
Drummond
Dysart
Forbes
Grafton
Grantham
Hamilton
Henry
Huntingdon
Jervis
Lansdowne
Largo
Melville
Newick
Ormaig
Pelham
Ralph’s Bay
Rutland
Somerton
Springhill *
Staffa
Stradbroke
Strangford
Ulva
Vincent
Wallace
Winterton
Yarlington
York

Glamorgan

Glastonbury
Eastbourne
St. Andrew’s
St. Cuthbert’s

Tasmanian Townships

Post office + Police station ^ Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages

Monmouth County

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)

Somerset County

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)

Pembroke

Sorell (Sorell parish) *+^

Dorset County

George Town *

Cornwall County

Avoca (Avoca parish) *^
Hadspen (Launceston parish)
Launceston (Launceston parish) *+^
Perth (Perth parish) *

Cumberland County

Burford (St. Alban’s parish)

Buckingham County

Bridgewater (Wellington parish) *
Hobarton (Hobart parish) *+^
New Norfolk (New Norfolk parish) *+^
New Norfolk (Wellington parish) *+^
Newton (Hobart parish)
Rugby (Sutherland parish)
Summerleas (Kingboro parish)

Westmorland

Carrick (Carrick parish) *
Deloraine (Calstock parish) *
Longford (Longford parish) *+^
Westbury (Westbury parish) *+^

Glamorgan County

Avoca (Glastonbury parish)
Eastbourne (Eastbourne parish)

Tasmanian Stations

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 1
Bishopsbourne 1
Brown’s River 1,5
Cape Bruny 6
Cascades 5
Circular Head 1,3
Clarence Plains 3
Coal Mines 5
Cocked Hat Hill 4
Deal Island 6
Emu Bay 1
Falmouth 1
Goose Island 6
Green Ponds 1,4
Gt. Swan Port 2,3
Horton 2
Huon 1,4
Impression Bay 5

Iron Pot Island 6
Jericho 1
Jerusalem 1,4
Kangaroo Point 1,4
Lake River 1
Low Head 6
Lower Settlement 1
Macq Plains 1
Macq River 1
Maria Island 1,5
Morven 2,3
Mount George 7
Mount Lewis 7
Mount Nelson 7
Mt. Direction 7
Nile Bridge 4
Norfolk Island 1,3,5
Norfolk Plains 1,2

Ouse Bridge 1,4
Oyster Cove 8
Point Puer 5
Port Arthur 1,3,5
Port Sorell 1,2,3
Prosser’s Plains 1,2,3
River Plenty 4
Saltwater River 5
Shannon River 4
South Port 2
St. Pat. Head 1
Swan Island 6
Tasman’s Penin 5
Waterloo Point 1
Windmill Hill 7
Woolpack 4