The Parish of Bherwerre is a

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...

of the County of St Vincent in

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which formerly included the area that is now the

Jervis Bay Territory The Jervis Bay Territory (; JBT) is an internal territory of Australia. It was established in 1915 from part of New South Wales (NSW), in order to give the landlocked Australian Capital Territory (ACT) access to the sea. It was administered ...

, which was transferred to the

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in 1915. Because of this, the parish is now less than half the size it was in the nineteenth century. The ''Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act of 1915'' mentions that of the parish were transferred to the Commonwealth. The '' Seat of Government Acceptance Act of 1909'' mentions that three separate parcels in the parish were planned to be transferred to the Commonwealth from Bherwerre, along with land in other nearby parishes, although the actual land transfer in 1915 was only made up of land in the Parish of Bherwerre. The land mentioned in the 1909 act was a portion, a portion, and the of Bowen Island.Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909
Austlii At the time, the parish was located in

Clyde Shire Clyde Shire was a local government area in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Clyde Shire was proclaimed on 7 March 1906, one of 134 shires created after the passing of the ''Local Government (Shires) Act 1905''. The shire o ...

. The parish now includes the towns of Sanctuary Point and Vincentia, and also the village of

Hyams Beach Hyams Beach is a seaside village in the City of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia, on the shores of Jervis Bay. At the , it had a population of 112. The village, 180 km south of Sydney, is bordered by two beaches, Chinaman's Beach to th ...

. The parish is bounded by St Georges Basin at Erowal Bay in the south, the Jervis Bay Territory in the south-east,

Jervis Bay Jervis Bay () is a oceanic bay and village on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, said to possess the whitest sand in the world. A area of land around the southern headland of the bay is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia ...

in the east and Moona Moona creek in the north.

References

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