Shire of Heytesbury

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Shire of Heytesbury
state = vic
region =
area = 1558.39
est = 1895
seat = Cobden
pop = 7530 (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 = Heytesbury
near-nw = Mortlake
near-n = Hampden
near-ne = Hampden
near-w = Warrnambool
near-e = Otway
near-sw =
near-s = "Southern Ocean"
near-se =
_noautocat = yes

The Shire of Heytesbury 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|1558.39|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1895 until 1994.

History

Heytesbury was originally located within the Hampden district which was incorporated on 28 April 1857. Heytesbury split from Hampden's east and west ridings to become a shire in its own right on 31 May 1895. On 6 May 1919 part of its area split away to join parts of Colac and Winchelsea in forming the Shire of Otway. Otway annexed a small part of Heytesbury in 1969.cite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=701 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 23 September 1994, the Shire was abolished, and merged with Town of Camperdown, Shire of Hampden and parts of Colac, Mortlake and the area around Princetown on the Great Ocean Road into the Corangamite Shire. A small part in the Shire's east became part of the Colac-Otway 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

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

Towns and Localities

* Cobden
* Port Campbell
* Bostocks Creek
* Brucknell
* Bungador
* Carpendeit
* Cobrico
* Cowleys Creek
* Curdies River
* Curdie Vale
* Dixie
* Ecklin South
* Elingamite
* Glenfyne
* Jancourt
* Koallah
* Lower Heytesbury
* Newfield
* Pomborneit
* Scotts Creek
* Simpson
* Stoneyford
* Tandarook
* Tesbury
* Timboon

Population

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References