Parish of Berowra

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Berowra
New South Wales
Berowra Parish Cumberland county locator.png
Location of the parish within Cumberland County
Coordinates 33°33′54″S151°05′04″E / 33.56500°S 151.08444°E / -33.56500; 151.08444
Gazetted 08-10-1976
LGA(s) Hornsby Shire
County Cumberland
Hundred (former) Sydney
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Map showing the Parish of Gidley, 1886.
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Berowra_Park.

The Parish of Berowra is a civil parish of the County of Cumberland, New South Wales, Australia.

The parish is in the Hundred of Dundas and Hornsby Shire Council. The parish is on the Hawkesbury River. [2]

Berowra is a word that means place of many shells in the language of the Guringgai tribe, a Sydney Aboriginal Clan of the area. The Berowra area has many Aboriginal carvings and is the site of the world's oldest living amphibian fossil. Today much of the parish is a National Park.

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References

  1. John Sands, 1886 map.
  2. PL Bemi, Map of the Parish of Gidley, 1822 (Surveyor General's Dept of New South Wales (signed) Edward Knapp LS).