Parish Boundaries for Greater Geelong Municipality

25 parishes exist within the City of Greater Geelong, part of a statewide system of 2003 parishes used for land registration in Victoria. The dataset is provided by the City of Greater Geelong and was last updated in April 2026. Parishes are historical subdivisions approximately 13 square kilometers in size, dating from the system's establishment in 1837.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical land subdivision patterns using parish geometry and adjacency.
• Overlay parish boundaries with modern property data to trace cadastral lineage.
• Perform spatial joins to aggregate municipal statistics by historical parish units.

Strengths

• 25 distinct parish polygons provide full coverage of the City of Greater Geelong.
• Data is referenced to the standard GCS_WGS_1984 geographic coordinate system.

Limitations

• The dataset's accuracy is not warranted, as explicitly stated by the provider.
• The temporal coverage is broad (since 1837) but specific update history for individual features is unknown.

Provenance

Source

City of Greater Geelong

Collection Method

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Time Range

System dates from 1837; specific feature timelines unknown.

Freshness

Last updated April 2026.

Geography

City of Greater Geelong municipality, Victoria, Australia.