The Parish of Bherwerre is a

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

of the

County of St Vincent St Vincent County was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It included the south coast area encompassing Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Batemans Bay, Ulladull ...

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which formerly included the area that is now the

Jervis Bay Territory The Jervis Bay Territory (; "JBT") is an internal states and territories of Australia, territory of Australia. It was established in 1915 by the transfer of jurisdiction from the state of New South Wales to the federal Commonwealth of Australia ...

, which was transferred to the

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in 1915. Because of this, the parish is now less than half the size it was in the nineteenth century. The ''Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act of 1915'' mentions that of the parish were transferred to the Commonwealth. The '' Seat of Government Acceptance Act of 1909'' mentions that three separate parcels in the parish were planned to be transferred to the Commonwealth from Bherwerre, along with land in other nearby parishes, although the actual land transfer in 1915 was only made up of land in the Parish of Bherwerre. The land mentioned in the 1909 act was a portion, a portion, and the of Bowen Island.Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909
Austlii At the time, the parish was located in Clyde Shire. The parish now includes the towns of Sanctuary Point and Vincentia, and also the village of

Hyams Beach Hyams Beach is a seaside village in the City of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia, on the shores of Jervis Bay. The village, 180 km south of Sydney, is bordered by two beaches, Chinaman's Beach to the north and Seaman's Beach (sometimes ...

. The parish is bounded by St Georges Basin at Erowal Bay in the south, the Jervis Bay Territory in the south-east,

Jervis Bay Jervis Bay () is a oceanic bay and village in the Jervis Bay Territory and on the South Coast (New South Wales), South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. A area of land around the southern headland of the bay, known as the Jervis Bay Terri ...

in the east and Moona Moona creek in the north.

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