Rural City of Bellarine

Infobox Australian Place | type = lga
name = Rural City of Bellarine
state = vic
region =
area = 331.78
est = 1853
seat = Drysdale
pop = 44,180 (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 = Grant
near-nw = Geelong
near-n = "Corio Bay"
near-ne = "Port Phillip"
near-w = South Barwon
near-e = Queenscliffe
near-sw = South Barwon
near-s = "Bass Strait"
near-se = "Bass Strait"
_noautocat = yes

The Rural City of Bellarine was a Local Government Area located to the southeast of the regional city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and covered most of the Bellarine Peninsula. The shire covered an area of convert|331.78|km2|sqmi|1, and existed from 1853 until 1993.

History

Bellarine was first incorporated as a district on 12 December 1853, and became a shire on 26 September 1865. On 12 December 1989 it was proclaimed a Rural Citycite book|title=Victorian Municipal Directory|year=1992|publisher=Arnall & Jackson|location=Brunswick|pages=299-300 Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.]

On 18 May 1993, the Shire was abolished, and merged with Cities of Geelong, Geelong West and Newtown, Shire of Corio, part of the City of South Barwon and parts of the Shires of Barrabool and Bannockburn into the City of Greater Geelong.

Wards

Bellarine was divided into three ridings , each of which elected three councillors:
* Bellarine Riding
* Paywit Riding
* Moolap Riding

Towns and Localities

* Bellarine
* Clifton Springs
* Curlewis
* Drysdale
* Fenwick
* Indented Head
* Leopold
* Mannerim
* Marcus
* Moolap
* Murradoc
* Newcomb
* Ocean Grove
* Point Henry
* Point Lonsdale (split with Borough of Queenscliffe)
* Portarlington
* St Leonards
* Swan Bay
* Wallington
* Whittington

Population

* Estimate in 1958 Victorian Year Book.

References