Somerset 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 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 ...

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 n ...

, the first counties and parishes to be surveyed in the colony.

The County of Somerset, bounded on the north by a portion of the river South Esk, on the east by the Eastern tier to the Macquarie river, and thence by a line to Beaumont's rivulet, and by that rivulet to its junction with the Little Swanport river; on the south by the Little Swanport river, and by the southern boundaries of the parishes of Brisbane, Oatlands, Dulverton and Exmouth to the river Clyde, and on the west by a portion of the river Clyde, by lakes Crescent and Sorell, and by a line from lake Sorell to Wood's lake, and thence by the Lake river to its junction with the South Esk.

Hundreds and parishes proclaimed at this time were: * The hundred of Lincoln **Chichester parish **Eskdale **Bramber **Cadbury *The hundred of Epping **Epping **Cleveland **Bathurst **Salisbury *The hundred of Cambleton **Cambleton **Wincanton **Eldon **Abercrombie *The hundred of Maitland ** Ramsbury ** Lincoln ** Tierney ** Lennox *The hundred of Auburn ** Denbigh ** Hill ** Chatsworth ** Milton *The hundred of Ross ** Ross ** Pakenham ** Glenmoriston ** Gibbs *The hundred of Cornwallis ** Peel ** East Grinstead ** Durham ** Cornwallis *The hundred of Brisbane ** Sligo ** Bandon ** Brisbane ** Oatlands *The hundred of Tunbridge ** Dulverton ** Exmouth ** Maxwell ** ''another parish unnamed'' Townships in the county were proclaimed

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

(portion of),

Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincoln ...

, Llewellyn, Campbelton,

Abercrombie Abercrombie may refer to: People * Abercrombie Lawson (1870–1927), botanist and professor * Abercrombie (surname) (list of people with the family name Abercrombie) Places Americas * Abercrombie, North Dakota, United States, city in Richland ...

Tierney Tierney is an Irish surname. It is an Anglicized form of Irish (male), (female), also spelt /. It is derived from ''tiarna'', the Irish word for Lord or Master. The name can be found around the world, mostly in the Anglosphere and it's most pr ...

Maitland Maitland is an English and Scottish surname. It arrived in Britain after the Norman conquest of 1066. There are two theories about its source. It is either a nickname reference to "bad temper/disposition" (Old French, ''Maltalent''; Anglo Norm ...

, Grindelwald,

Auburn Auburn may refer to: Places Australia * Auburn, New South Wales * City of Auburn, the local government area *Electoral district of Auburn *Auburn, Queensland, a locality in the Western Downs Region *Auburn, South Australia *Auburn, Tasmania *Aub ...

(portion of),

Ross Ross or ROSS may refer to: People * Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan * Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning * Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland Places * RoSS, the Republic of Sou ...

East Grinstead East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, south of London, northeast of Brighton, and northeast of the county town of Chichester. Situated in the extreme northeast of the county, the civ ...

Cornwallis Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as the Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army general and official. In the United S ...

Andover Andover may refer to: Places Australia * Andover, Tasmania Canada * Andover Parish, New Brunswick * Perth-Andover, New Brunswick United Kingdom * Andover, Hampshire, England ** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station United States * Ando ...

, Oatlands (portion of), Tunbridge.

References

Land Districts of Tasmania {{Tasmania-geo-stub