Shire of Hampden

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Hampden
state = vic
region =
area = 2620.91
est = 1857
seat = Camperdown
pop = 6960 (1992) [cite book|title=Victorian Year Book|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office|year=1994|page=49-52|id=ISSN 0067-1223]

logosize =


caption = Location in Victoria
county = Hampden, Grenville
near-nw = Ararat
near-n = Ripon
near-ne = Grenville
near-w = Mortlake
near-e = Leigh
near-sw = Warrnambool
near-s = Heytesbury
near-se = Colac
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Hampden was a Local Government Area located about convert|200|km|mi|0 west-southwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of convert|2620.91|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1857 until 1994.

History

Hampden was first incorporated as a district on 28 April 1857, and became a shire on 31 December 1863. On 31 May 1895, it lost parts of its East and West wards to create the Shire of Heytesbury. On 9 September 1952, the Borough of Camperdown severed from its East riding. Its boundary was adjusted on 31 May 1977 to include all of Skipton.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=692-693 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 23 September 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with Town of Camperdown, most of Shire of Heytesbury and parts of Colac, Mortlake and the area around Princetown on the Great Ocean Road into the Corangamite Shire. [cite book|url=http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/76E601D6DB55E88ACA25722500049195/$File/12570_1994-95.pdf|title=Victorian local government amalgamations 1994-1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics|date=1 August 1995|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia|page=5|isbn=0-642-23117-6|accessdate=2008-01-05]

Wards

Hampden was divided into three ridings, each of which elected three councillors:
* North Riding
* South Riding
* West Riding

Towns and Localities

* Berrybank
* Bookaar
* Boorcan
* Bradvale
* Chocolyn
* Derrinallum
* Duverney
* Foxhow
* Glenormiston
* Gnotuk
* Kariah
* Leslie Manor
* Lismore
* Mingay
* Mount Bute
* Naroghid
* Noorat
* Skipton
* Terang
* Vite Vite
* Weerite

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References