Westmoreland Land District is one of the twenty land districts of Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

 which are part of the Cadastral divisions of Tasmania

Cadastral divisions of Tasmania

The Lands administrative divisions of Tasmania refer to the division of Tasmania into land districts and parishes for cadastral purposes, which are part of the lands administrative divisions of Australia...

. It was formerly one of the 18 counties of Tasmania

Counties of Tasmania

The 18 former counties of Tasmania, renamed as Land Districts:*Arthur County*Buckingham County*Cornwall County*Cumberland County*Devon County*Dorset County*Franklin County*Glamorgan County*Kent County*Lincoln County*Monmouth County*Montagu County...

.

The original parishes

On 15 January 1836 George Arthur, the Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Van Diemen's Land

Van Diemen's Land

Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to land on the shores of Tasmania...

proclaimed, via The Hobart Town Courier

The Courier (Hobart)

The Courier is a newspaper founded in 1827 in Hobart, Tasmania, as the Hobart Town Courier. It changed names to the Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser in 1839, settling on The Courier in 1840. In 1859 it merged with The Hobart Town Daily Mercury.-References:* from the Mercury...

, the first counties and parishes to be surveyed in the colony.

County of Westmoreland, bounded on the north by the river Meander, and by the great road to the Surrey Hills from Deloraine bridge to the ford in the river Mersey; on the east bv a portion of the river South Esk and the Lake river; on the south by a line from Wood's lake to the Shannon at St. Patrick's plains, and by that river to the Great lake and thence by a line to the river Nive; on the west by the river Nive to its source, and thence by a line by the extreme Western bluff to the ford in the Mersey.

Hundreds and parishes proclaimed at this time were:

• The hundred of Norfolk Plains
  • Longford parish
  • Cressy
  • Carrick
  • Little Hampton
• The hundred of Westbury
  • Westbury
  • Quamby
  • Sillwood
  • Adelphi

The townships of Longford

Longford, Tasmania

Longford is a town in the north-east of Tasmania, Australia. It lies 175 m above sea level at the convergence of the Macquarie River and the South Esk River, 21 km south of Launceston. It is just south of the Illawarra Road, a road connecting the Bass and Midland Highways. It has a...

, Carrick

Carrick, Tasmania

Carrick is a small town in northern Tasmania about west of Launceston on the Liffey River, and on the 'Old Bass Highway' or Meander Valley Highway. At the 2006 census, the town had a population of 439....

, and Westbury

Westbury, Tasmania

Westbury is a town in the central north of Tasmania, Australia. It lies 30 km west of Launceston on the Bass Highway, and at the 2006 census had a population of 1,357. It is part of, and the headquarters of, the Meander Valley Council area....

were proclaimed as being within the county.