Monmouth Land District is one of the twenty land districts of

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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 cad ...

. 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 bordered by the River Derwent to the south, the Clyde River to the west, and a small part of the

Jordan River The Jordan River or River Jordan ( ar, نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn'', he, נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, ''Nəhar hayYardēn''; syc, ܢܗܪܐ ܕܝܘܪܕܢܢ ''Nahrāʾ Yurdnan''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Shariea ...

to the north. It includes the parts of Greater

Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...

which are located to the east of the Derwent, such as Rosny Park and Bridgewater. It also includes Kempton and

Hamilton Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname ** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland ** Lord Hamilt ...

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.

Eighth, The County of Monmouth, bounded on the north by Somersetshire; on the west by a portion of the Clyde to its junction with the Derwent, and thence on the south west by the Derwent to Storm bay; on the south by Storm bay and Frederick Henry bay; on the east by Pittwater and by the eastern boundaries of the parishes of Ulva, Staffa and Ormaig, and thence by a line to the junction of Beamont's rivulet with Little Swan port river. This county to include Betsey island and the Iron pot island.

;Hundreds and parishes proclaimed at this time were: * The hundred of Oatlands **Bath **York **Newick **Somerton *The hundred of Westbury **Westbury **Quamby **Sillwood **Adelphi *The hundred of Apsley **Rutland **Spring Hill ** Winterton **Apsley *The hundred of Picton ** Strangford ** Dysart ** Beaufort ** Huntingdon *The hundred of Bothwell **Vincent **Largo **Henry **Grantham *The hundred of Hamilton **Hamilton **Grafton **Pelham **Stradbroke *The hundred of Pontville **Wallace **Lansdowne, **Aldville **Arundel *The hundred of Brighton **Lewis **Staffa **Ulva **Drummond *The hundred of Bellerive **Forbes **Cambridge **Clarence **Ralph's Bay *The hundred of Yarlington **Ormaig **Yarlington **''unnamed'' **''unnamed''

References

Land Districts of Tasmania {{ClarenceTAS-geo-stub