Cumberland County, New South Wales
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Cumberland County is a county in the State of New South Wales, Australia. Most of the Sydney metropolitan area is located within the County of Cumberland.
The County of Cumberland stretches from
History
The name Cumberland was conferred by Governor Arthur Phillip in honour of Prince Henry Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn at a gathering to celebrate the birthday of his brother, King George III, on 4 June 1788.[1] The county has been marked on maps since the start of the colony, as shown along the key on a 1789 map describing Port Jackson as being within the county of Cumberland. In the nineteenth century, parts of the county were in the South and North Riding electoral districts from 1856 to 1859, which were replaced by Central Cumberland. There was also the Cumberland Boroughs electoral district.
Politics
The State of New South Wales is divided up into
In 1948 the Council published the
Its metropolitan planning functions were taken over by a new body, the
Chairmen
Years | Name | Council | Notes |
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1945–1951 | John Percival Tate | Ryde | [4] |
1951–1958 | Ronald Stark Luke | Mosman |
[5][6] |
1958–1960 | Leslie Arthur Scutts | Marrickville | |
1960–1961 | Sydney John Webb | Holroyd | |
1961–1962 | Tom Foster | Sydney | [7] |
1962–1963 | Sydney John Webb | Holroyd | [8] |
1963–1964 | Samuel Peters | Randwick |
Sub-divisions
Hundreds
There were thirteen
- Bringelly
- Campbelltown
- Dundas
- Evan
- Hardinge
- Liverpool
- Packenham
- Parramatta
- Richmond
- Southend
- Hundred of Sydney
- Windsor
- Woronora (shown as Heathcote on some maps)
Parishes
In 1835, Cumberland County was subdivided into 57 parishes.
A full list of parishes found within this county; the LGAs which the parish is mostly in (most parish boundaries do not match LGA boundaries exactly), and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:
Districts
The first subdivisions of the county were called districts, shown in early maps from the period, such as 21 districts on an 1810 map and 37 districts on an 1824 map (not including Philip which was across the Nepean River and not part of the county). The districts in use in 1824:
- Airds
- Appin
- Bankstown
- Bathurst
- Botany Bay
- Bringelly
- Bullanaming
- Cambramatta
- Castle Hill
- Castlereagh
- Concord
- Cooke
- Dundas
- Eastern Plains
- Evan
- Field of Mars
- Green Hills
- Holsworthy
- Hunter's Hill
- Illawarra
- Liberty Plains
- Mecham
- Melville
- Meyrick
- Minto
- Nelson
- Northern Boundary
- Oxley
- Parramatta
- Petersham
- Ponds
- Prospect
- Richmond
- Sydney
- Tongabee
- Upper Minto
- Upper Nelson
References
- ^ "Cumberland County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
- ^ "CUMBERLAND COUNTY". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 35, 293. New South Wales, Australia. 1 February 1951. p. 4. Retrieved 11 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "AGY-424 State Planning Authority". NSW State Archives & Records. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ Sarah-Jane Rennie, 'Tate, John Percival (1894–1977)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tate-john-percival-11822/text21153, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed online 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Councillor R. S. Luke". Construction. New South Wales, Australia. 14 February 1951. p. 3. Retrieved 11 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "County Council Chairman's Chain of Office". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 36, 054. New South Wales, Australia. 11 July 1953. p. 2. Retrieved 11 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Thomas Christopher Foster". Sydney's Aldermen. City of Sydney. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Draw decides new chairman". The Biz. No. 2903. New South Wales, Australia. 7 February 1962. p. 3. Retrieved 11 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Names Search". Geographical Names Board of NSW. Archived from the original on 23 March 2007. Retrieved 2 April 2007.
- ^ The Naming of the Parish, Christ Church of St.Laurence[permanent dead link]