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County of Malmesbury was one of the five counties in the Northern Territory which are part of the Lands administrative divisions of Australia.
| County of Malmesbury Northern Territory | |||||||||||||||
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 1886 map showing the part of the Northern Territory near Darwin subdivided into five counties | |||||||||||||||
  County of Malmesbury | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 13°37′S 130°26′E / 13.62°S 130.44°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 16 July 1885[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Abolished | 1976[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining counties[2][3] | ||||||||||||||
This County, in the Daly River area, lapsed with the passage in 1976 and assent of the Crown Lands Ordinance 1976 (No 1 of 1977) and the Crown Lands (Validation of Proclamations) Ordinance 1976 (No.2 of 1977).[4]
Description
editThe County was named after James H. Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (1807 - 1889) Foreign Secretary under Lord Derby in 1852. The South Australian administration named the Counties of Malmesbury and Rosebery on 16 July 1885 [2] at a time when these two statesmen were prominent in the British Parliament and early developments were occurring on the Daly River and in the Pine Creek mining area of the Territory.[5]
Constituent hundreds
editHundred of Berinka
editThe Hundred of Berinka (13°40′30″S 130°26′24″E / 13.675°S 130.44°E) was gazetted in July 1885 and was extended in October 1913.[6]
Hundred of Hawkshaw
editThe Hundred of Hawkshaw (13°36′00″S 130°30′52″E / 13.6°S 130.5145°E) was gazetted on 16 July 1885 and was extended in October 1913.[7][8] The Hundred was roughly ten miles by ten miles[9] in keeping with the colonial policy of forming 100 square mile units.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ a b "Search results for "County of Malmesbury"". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ a b c Spence, John B. (16 July 1885). "Proclamation of the Counties of Malmesbury and Rosebery" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. pp. 139–140. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ "Map of Northern Territory / John Sands". National Library of Australia. John Sands (Firm). 1886. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ County of Malmesbury, Place Names Register Extract.
- ^ "County of Malmesbury". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ^ "Search result for "Hundred of Berinka"". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ Spence, John G. (16 July 1885). "Proclamation of the Hundred of Hawkshaw" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 139. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ "Search result for "Hundred of Hawkshaw"". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ Frazer S. Crawford, Hawkshaw (Surveyor-General's Office, Adelaide, 1887).