The County of Ward is a

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(a cadastral division) in the south-eastern corner of

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. The main urban area within the county is the city of the

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, and it also extends to include the southern parts of the

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region centred on Beaudesert and Boonah.

History

Ward was first created by an Order in Council by the Governor of New South Wales on 30 December 1848. It was then described in the following terms: The Stanley–Ward boundary was somewhat imprecise — the 28th parallel met the sea near

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, but gazettals and newspaper reports in the

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of land sales in the 1850s noted land between the Logan and

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rivers as being within Ward, and numerous reports from 1863 onwards identified Boyd, Moffatt and Logan parishes to be part of Ward. Upon the

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from New South Wales in 1859, the southern boundary of Ward became part of the southern boundary of the new colony. On 7 March 1901, the

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proclaimed new boundaries under the ''Land Act 1897'', which were described as follows:

Parishes

Like all counties in Queensland, Ward is divided into parishes. The parishes current LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:

References

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South East Queensland

History

Parishes

See also

References