Berwick Shire and City

Berwick District Road Board was created in 1862 and was proclaimed a Shire in 1868. In 1889 its Scoresby Riding was severed to form Fern Tree Gully Shire. The Shire then stretched east of Dandenong, about 35 km east of Melbourne, as far as Bunyip, about 75 km east of Melbourne. To the north, it extended to Lysterfield and Gembrook and to the south encompassed part of the Kooweerup Swamp. Its area was 384 sq km, bisected from east to west by the railway line and highway to Gippsland. Berwick was the main town.