| Benolong Parish New South Wales | |||||||||
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  Benolong Parish | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°15′25″S148°36′4″E / 32.25694°S 148.60111°E Coordinates: 32°15′25″S148°36′4″E / 32.25694°S 148.60111°E | ||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 2830 | ||||||||
| Time zone | AEST (UTC+10) | ||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | AEDT (UTC+11) | ||||||||
| Location | 400 km (249 mi) NW of Sydney [1] | ||||||||
| LGA(s) | Dubbo Regional Council | ||||||||
| Region | Central West / Orana | ||||||||
| County | Gordon | ||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Dubbo | ||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Parkes | ||||||||
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Benolong Parish is a civil parish of Gordon County, New South Wales. [2] a Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. [3]
Lands administrative divisions of Australia are the cadastral divisions of Australia for the purposes of identification of land to ensure security of land ownership. Most states term these divisions as counties, parishes, hundreds, and other terms. The eastern states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania were divided into counties and parishes in the 19th century, although the Tasmanian counties were renamed land districts in the 20th century. Parts of South Australia (south-east) and Western Australia (south-west) were similarly divided into counties, and there were also five counties in a small part of the Northern Territory. However South Australia has subdivisions of hundreds instead of parishes, along with the Northern Territory, which was part of South Australia when the hundreds were proclaimed. There were also formerly hundreds in Tasmania. There have been at least 600 counties, 544 hundreds and at least 15,692 parishes in Australia, but there are none of these units for most of the sparsely inhabited central and western parts of the country.
Gordon County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. The Macquarie River is the north-eastern boundary.
The parish is on the Macquarie River and Whylandra Creek south of Dubbo, New South Wales, [4] the nearest town.
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.
Macquarie River a watercourse that is part of the Macquarie–Barwon catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is one of the main inland rivers in New South Wales, Australia.
The now disused [5] Molong–Dubbo railway line passes through the parish with Nubingerie railway station in the parish. [6]
The Molong–Dubbo railway line is an inactive railway line in western New South Wales, Australia. It branched off the Broken Hill line at Molong and paralleled the Main West line before rejoining it at Dubbo. The line was designed with gentler grades than the steeper section of the Main Western line via Wellington, but this resulted in it taking a meandering course.
