Parish of Berowra
Appearance
Berowra New South Wales | |
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![]() Location of the parish within Cumberland County | |
Coordinates | 33°33′54″S 151°05′04″E / 33.56500°S 151.08444°E |
Gazetted | 08-10-1976 |
LGA(s) | Hornsby Shire |
County | Cumberland |
Hundred (former) | Sydney |
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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.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ John Sands, 1886 map.
- ^ PL Bemi, Map of the Parish of Gidley, 1822 (Surveyor General's Dept of New South Wales (signed) Edward Knapp LS).