Buckingham Land District
Buckingham Land District is one of the twenty land districts of Tasmania which are part of the Lands administrative divisions of Tasmania. It was formerly Buckingham County, one of the 18 counties of Tasmania and one of the first eleven proclaimed in 1836 and is bordered to the north by the River Derwent, and to the south by the Huon River. It includes Bruny Island. Hobart is located in the county. It was named after the then county of England. An earlier Buckingham County existed from 24 September 1804 until 1813 as an administrative division whilst Van Diemen's Land was administered as two units. It was defined as all of Van Diemen's Land south of the 42nd parallel (between Trial Harbour and Friendly Beaches, and governed by David Collins. Cornwall County occupied the remainder of the island. The original parishes
On 15 January 1836 George Arthur, the Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Van Diemen's Land proclaimed, via The Hobart Town Courier, the first counties and parishes to be surveyed in the colony. The County of Buckingham, bounded on the north by the river Derwent from its confluence with river Florentine to the sea; on the west by the river Florentine to its source, and thence by a line to the source of the river Huon, and by that river to the sea. This county to include Bruni island, the Egg islands, Huon island, Garden island, Partridge island, Penguin island, Satellite island, Green island, Snake island, Arch island, Actaeon island, and all other islands in D'Entrecasteaux channel. Hundreds and parishes proclaimed at this time were:
 The hundred of New Norfolk
Anglesea parish
Uxbridge
New Norfolk
Wellington
 The hundred of Rugby
Sutherland
Argyle
unnamed
unnamed
 The hundred of Hobarton
Hobart parish
Glenorchy
Kingboro'
Queenboro'
 The hundred of Bruni
Coningham
Bruni
D'Entrecasteaux
unnamed

Parishes 

The parishes are:
Anglesea
Argyle
Bagot
Bedford
Bethune
Buckingham
Camden
Champ
Conningham
Glenorchy
Hobart Town
Kingborough
Longley
Lonna
Molesworth
Neena
New Norfolk
North Bruny
Pedder
Punna
Queenborough
Ranelagh
Rinadena
South Bruny
Sutherland
Throckmorton
Trinity
Tyenna
Uxbridge
Wellington

References

Land Districts of Tasmania