Kent Land District is one of the twenty land districts of
Tasmania
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which are part of the
Cadastral divisions of Tasmania
A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref>
Often it is represented graphically in a ca ...
. It was formerly one of the 18
counties of Tasmania
The 18 former counties of Tasmania, renamed as Land Districts:
* Arthur County
* Buckingham County
* Cornwall County
*Cumberland County
* Devon County
* Dorset County
* Franklin County
* Glamorgan County
* Kent County
* Lincoln County
* Monmouth Co ...
. It is located on the southern tip of Tasmania. It is bordered by the
Huon River
The Huon River is a perennial river located in the south-west and south-east regions of Tasmania, Australia. At in length, the Huon River is the fifth-longest in the state, with its course flowing east through the fertile Huon Valley and empt ...
to the north, and
Picton River
Picton may refer to:
Places
*Picton Castle, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
* Picton, Cheshire, England, UK
*Picton (ward), an electoral ward of the Liverpool City Council, England, UK
*Picton, New South Wales, Australia
* Picton, Western Australia, a ...
to the north-west. It includes
Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...
,
Geeveston and
Southport
Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 90,336, making it the eleventh most populous settlement in North West England.
Southport lies on the Irish ...
, and part of the
Southwest National Park
Southwest National Park is an Australian national park located in the south-west of Tasmania, bounded by the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park to the north and the Hartz Mountains National Park to the east. It is a part of a chain of ...
.
The original parishes
On 15 January 1836 George Arthur, the Lieutenant Governor of the Island of
Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration of Australia in the 19th century. A British settlement was established in Van Diemen's Land in 1803 before it became a sepa ...
proclaimed, via
The Hobart Town Courier
''The Courier'' is a newspaper founded in 1827 in Hobart, Tasmania, as ''The Hobart Town Courier''. It changed its name to ''The Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser'' in 1839, settling on ''The Courier'' in 1840.
By 1830 the ne ...
, the first counties and parishes to be surveyed in the colony.
Ihe County of Kent, bounded on the north bv the river Davey, and by a line to the river Picton, and by that river to its junction with the river Huon, thence on the north and on the east by the river Huon to the sea, and on the south and west by the sea. This county to include all islands situate between Whale head and North Head (Port Davey).
No hundreds and parishes were proclaimed for Kent County at this time.
References
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Land Districts of Tasmania