County of Bourke

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Bourke Victoria

Location in Victoria

Cadastral units around Bourke Talbot Dalhousie Anglesey Grant Bourke Evelyn Grant Port Phillip Bay Mornington

There is also Bourke County, New South Wales

The County of Bourke is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia, used for land titles. It is the oldest and most populous county in Victoria and contains the city of Melbourne. Like other counties in Victoria, it is subdivided into parishes. The original name for the area was the Port Philip District, which was renamed to Bourke County after Richard Bourke, the governor of New South Wales between 1831 and 1837.^[1] It is bordered by the Werribee River in the west; the Great Dividing Range in the north; Port Phillip Bay in the south; and by Dandenong Creek, a small part of the Yarra River, and the Plenty River in the east.

The Melbourne and County of Bourke Police was the name for the police force in the area before 1853. The County of Bourke was used on the name of the electoral roll in 1845.^[2] There was also the Bourke County Court in the 1850s^[3], which became the County Court of Victoria. Melbourne is also referenced as being in the County of Bourke in the 1911 Britannica.^[4]

[edit] Parishes

Parishes within the county (many of the links below link to the modern day suburb or town which is usually in the same area as the parish, but not necessarily the same - the parish would be larger than the modern suburb). Several of the parishes were also part of a neighbouring county. These parishes were in Bourke as well as the County of Dalhousie; Bylands, Forbes, Goldie, Lancefield and Newham. Several others were in Bourke and the County of Evelyn; Morang, Toorourrong and Yan Yean. The parish of Ballan was located in Bourke and the County of Grant.

Parish	LGA	Coordinates	Ref	Map
Blackwood	Shire of Moorabool	37°29′57″S, 144°19′25″E	Vicnames
Bollinda	City of Hume	37°31′57″S, 144°47′59″E	Vicnames
Boroondara	Boroondara City	37°48′47″S, 145°04′04″E	Vicnames
Bulla Bulla	City of Hume	37°36′05″S, 144°48′42″E	Vicnames
Bulleen	City of Manningham	37°45′59″S, 145°09′11″E	Vicnames
Bullengarook	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°30′22″S, 144°30′49″E	Vicnames
Buttlejorrk	Hume City	37°32′09″S, 144°41′21″E	Vicnames	[1]
Bylands	Shire of Mitchell	37°20′44″S, 144°58′25″E	Vicnames
Chintin	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°22′36″S, 144°51′11″E	Vicnames	[2]
Coimadai	Shire of Moorabool	37°34′34″S, 144°27′25″E	Vicnames	[3]
Coornmill	Shire of Moorabool	37°29′20″S, 144°25′33″E	Vicnames
Cut Paw Paw	Maribyrnong City	37°48′32″S, 144°52′29″E	Vicnames	[4]
Dandenong	Greater Dandenong City	37°58′18″S, 145°11′28″E	Vicnames	[5]
Darraweit Guim	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°27′60″S, 144°53′41″E	Vicnames
Derrimut	Melton Shire	37°46′46″S, 144°45′03″E	Vicnames	[6]
Deutgam	Wyndham City	37°55′17″S, 144°43′42″E	Vicnames	[7]
Djerriwarrh	Melton Shire	37°40′36″S, 144°33′44″E	Vicnames	[8]
Doutta Galla	Moonee Valley City	37°44′56″S, 144°54′30″E	Vicnames	[9]
Forbes	Shire of Mitchell	37°18′48″S, 144°53′16″E	Vicnames
Gisborne	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°29′04″S, 144°36′01″E	Vicnames
Goldie	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°14′31″S, 144°49′32″E	Vicnames
Jika Jika	Darebin City	37°45′02″S, 144°59′28″E	Vicnames
Havelock	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°27′16″S, 144°48′53″E	Vicnames	[10]
Holden	Melton Shire	37°37′06″S, 144°42′29″E	Vicnames	[11]
Jika Jika	Whittlesea City	37°45′02″S, 144°59′28″E	Vicnames
Kalkallo	Whittlesea City	37°33′02″S, 144°59′51″E	Vicnames	[12]
Keelbundora	Darebin City	37°42′53″S, 144°03′45″E	Vicnames
Kerrie	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°25′60″S, 144°41′44″E	Vicnames	[13]
Korkuperrimul	Shire of Moorabool	37°39′09″S, 144°24′08″E	Vicnames
Kororoit	Melton Shire	37°41′50″S, 144°38′48″E	Vicnames	[14]
Lancefield	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°17′01″S, 144°44′47″E	Vicnames
Macedon, Victoria	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°24′36″S, 144°33′51″E	Vicnames
Maribyrnong	Brimbank City	37°42′45″S, 144°46′40″E	Vicnames	[15]
Melbourne North	City of Yarra	37°47′59″S, 144°58′46″E	Vicnames
Melbourne South	City of Port Phillip	37°50′11″S, 144°57′25″E	Vicnames
Merriang	Whittlesea City	37°28′46″S, 144°00′27″E	Vicnames	[16]
Merrimu	Shire of Moorabool	37°39′13″S, 144°29′34″E	Vicnames	[17]
Mickleham	City of Hume	37°32′26″S, 144°53′50″E	Vicnames	[18]
Monegeetta	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°22′46″S, 144°45′34″E	Vicnames	[19]
Moorabbin	City of Kingston	37°56′29″S, 144°02′30″E	Vicnames	[20]
Moorarbool East	Shire of Moorabool	37°29′49″S, 144°13′11″E	Vicnames	[21]
Morang	City of Whittlesea	37°38′09″S, 144°05′26″E	Vicnames	[22]
Mordialloc	City of Kingston	37°57′32″S, 145°07′15″E	Vicnames
Mulgrave	City of Monash	37°53′18″S, 145°08′52″E	Vicnames	[23]
Myrniong	Shire of Moorabool	37°36′32″S, 144°20′37″E	Vicnames	[24]
Nunawading	City of Whitehorse	37°49′41″S, 145°09′54″E	Vicnames	[25]
Prahran	City of Glen Eira	37°52′38″S, 145°02′28″E	Vicnames	[26]
Pywheitjorrk	Melton Shire	37°46′09″S, 144°38′19″E	Vicnames	[27]
Rochford	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°18′44″S, 144°40′53″E	Vicnames	[28]
Springfield	Shire of Macedon Ranges	37°19′29″S, 144°48′55″E	Vicnames	[29]
Tarneit	City of Wyndham	37°50′47″S, 144°40′38″E	Vicnames	[30]
Toorourrong	City of Whittlesea	37°29′31″S, 145°06′52″E	Vicnames
Truganina	City of Hobsons Bay	37°51′01″S, 144°47′06″E	Vicnames
Tullamarine	City of Hume	37°40′33″S, 144°50′45″E	Vicnames	[31]
Wallan Wallan	Shire of Mitchell	37°25′22″S, 145°03′43″E	Vicnames	[32]
Will Will Rook	City of Hume	37°41′15″S, 144°56′30″E	Vicnames	[33]
Wollert	City of Whittlesea	37°37′28″S, 145°00′05″E	Vicnames
Yangardook	Melton Shire	37°36′02″S, 144°35′35″E	Vicnames	[34]
Yuroke	City of Hume	37°36′53″S, 144°54′35″E	Vicnames	[35]

[edit] References

• Vicnames, place name details
• Research aids, Victoria 1910

[edit] External links

• Plans of the County of Bourke 1835-1855

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