Wellington Land District is a
land district
A land district is a type of administrative division
Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into ...
(cadastral division) of
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
, located within the
South-West Land Division on the state's west coast. It spans roughly 32°56'S – 33°40'S in latitude and 115°25'E – 116°50'E in longitude.
History
The system of land districts came together in an ad hoc fashion, and the Wellington district started to be subdivided in 1835 well before any thought was given to formally defining its boundaries. The definition later used by the Lands and Surveys department came from an 1862 gazettal which read as follows:
Location and features
The district is located on the
Indian Ocean
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coast, roughly centred on the city of
Bunbury and extending north to
Yarloop, east to
Darkan and south to just past both
Capel and
Donnybrook.
Towns and areas
Towns
The Wellington district contains the following current or former townsites:
[Western Australian Government Gazette, various editions. Accessed at Battye Library, Perth.]
Agricultural areas
Under the ''Land Act 1898'', the ''Agricultural Lands Purchase Act 1896'', and preceding regulations, it was open to the Governor to declare agricultural areas on crown land or repurchased estates on private land, to which special provisions applied for both
alienation and
improvement. Many of these estates came into being shortly after
World War I
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for the purposes of
soldier resettlement.
References
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Land districts of Western Australia
South West (Western Australia)