County of Bourke, Victoria

Bourke Victoria
File:Bourke Victoria.png Location in Victoria
Lands administrative divisions around Bourke: Talbot Dalhousie Anglesey Grant Bourke Evelyn Grant Port Phillip Mornington

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1866 map of Bourke County showing the parishes

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1885 map of Bourke County (pink)

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1886 map of Bourke County

The County of Bourke is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the Lands administrative 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 county was named after Richard Bourke, the governor of New South Wales between 1831 and 1837. It is bordered by the Werribee River in the west, the Great Dividing Range in the north, Port Phillip in the south, and by Dandenong Creek, a small part of the Yarra River, and the Plenty River in the east.

Unlike counties in England and in the United States, Australian counties serve no administrative or political function. Rather, counties exist for purposes of land ownership. For example, property titles in Lands administrative divisions of Australia are often listed as being situated within a parish and county. For political subdivisions, Australia employs the Local Government Area (LGA) system — which includes shires, districts, and city councils — as the third and lowest tier of government (the States and territories of Australia being the second tier and the Federal Government being the highest tier).

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. There was also the Bourke County Court in the 1850s, which became the County Court of Victoria. Melbourne is also referenced as being in "Bourke county" in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.

Parishes

Following is a list of parishes within the County of Bourke. Many of the links below link to a modern suburb or town, which is situated within the parish. In most cases, the parish itself is much bigger than the modern suburb or town.

Several of the parishes are also part of a neighbouring county. For example, Bylands, Forbes, Goldie, Lancefield and Newham parishes are located in the County of Bourke as well as the County of Dalhousie. Morang, Toorourrong and Yan Yean parishes are in the County of Bourke as well as the County of Evelyn. Finally, Ballan parish is situated within both the County of Bourke and the County of Grant.

Parish	LGA	Coordinates	Ref	Map
Blackwood	Shire of Moorabool		Vicnames
Bollinda	City of Hume		Vicnames
Boroondara	City of Boroondara		Vicnames
Bulla Bulla	City of Hume		Vicnames
Bulleen	City of Manningham		Vicnames
Bullengarook	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames
Buttlejorrk	City of Hume		Vicnames	[1]
Bylands	Shire of Mitchell		Vicnames
Chintin	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames	[2]
Coimadai	Shire of Moorabool		Vicnames	[3]
Coornmill	Shire of Moorabool		Vicnames
Cut Paw Paw	City of Maribyrnong		Vicnames	[4]
Dandenong	City of Greater Dandenong		Vicnames	[5]
Darraweit Guim	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames
Derrimut	City of Melton		Vicnames	[6]
Deutgam	City of Wyndham		Vicnames	[7]
Djerriwarrh	City of Melton		Vicnames	[8]
Doutta Galla	City of Moonee Valley		Vicnames	[9]
Forbes	Shire of Mitchell		Vicnames
Gisborne	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames
Goldie	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames
Jika Jika	City of Darebin		Vicnames
Havelock	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames	[10]
Holden	City of Melton		Vicnames	[11]
Jika Jika	City of Whittlesea		Vicnames
Kalkallo	City of Whittlesea		Vicnames	[12]
Keelbundora	City of Darebin		Vicnames
Kerrie	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames	[13]
Korkuperrimul	Shire of Moorabool		Vicnames
Kororoit	City of Melton		Vicnames	[14]
Lancefield	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames
Macedon	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames
Maribyrnong	City of Brimbank		Vicnames	[15]
Melbourne North	City of Yarra		Vicnames
Melbourne South	City of Port Phillip		Vicnames
Merriang	City of Whittlesea		Vicnames	[16]
Merrimu	Shire of Moorabool		Vicnames	[17]
Mickleham	City of Hume		Vicnames	[18]
Monegeetta	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames	[19]
Moorabbin	City of Kingston		Vicnames	[20]
Moorarbool East	Shire of Moorabool		Vicnames	[21]
Morang	City of Whittlesea		Vicnames	[22]
Mordialloc	City of Kingston		Vicnames
Mulgrave	City of Monash		Vicnames	[23]
Myrniong	Shire of Moorabool		Vicnames	[24]
Nunawading	City of Whitehorse		Vicnames	[25]
Prahran	City of Glen Eira		Vicnames	[26]
Pywheitjorrk	City of Melton		Vicnames	[27]
Rochford	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames	[28]
Springfield	Shire of Macedon Ranges		Vicnames	[29]
Tarneit	City of Wyndham		Vicnames	[30]
Toorourrong	City of Whittlesea		Vicnames
Truganina	City of Hobsons Bay		Vicnames
Tullamarine	City of Hume		Vicnames	[31]
Wallan Wallan	Shire of Mitchell		Vicnames	[32]
Will Will Rook	City of Hume		Vicnames	[33]
Wollert	City of Whittlesea		Vicnames
Yangardook	City of Melton		Vicnames	[34]
Yuroke	City of Hume		Vicnames	[35]

See also

• Local government areas of Victoria

References

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

External links

• Plans of the County of Bourke 1835-1855