Shire of Heytesbury

The Shire of Heytesbury was a local government area about 200km west-southwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 1558.39km2, and existed from 1895 until 1994.HistoryHeytesbury was originally located within the Hampden and Heytesbury Road District, which was incorporated on 28 April 1857. On 31 May 1895, Heytesbury split away from the East and West Ridings of the Shire of Hampden, to become a shire in its own right. On 6 May 1919, parts of its area split away to join parts of the Shires of Colac and Winchelsea, to form the Shire of Otway. Otway annexed a small part of Heytesbury in 1969.On 23 September 1994, the Shire of Heytesbury was abolished, and, along with the Town of Camperdown, the Shire of Hampden, and parts of the Shires of Colac, Mortlake and the area around Princetown, on the Great Ocean Road, was merged into the newly created Shire of Corangamite. A small part in the shire's east was transferred to the newly created Shire of Colac Otway.