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Wilton Parish
The Parish of Wilton is a Parish (country subdivision), parish of the Camden County, New South Wales, County of Camden in New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the area around where Picton Road, New South Wales, Picton Road crosses the Hume Highway, and the area around nearby Wilton, New South Wales, Wilton. It is bounded by the Cataract River (Wollondilly), Cataract River in the east, the Nepean River in the west and north, and the Cordeaux River in the south-west. Almost the entire boundary of the parish uses rivers, except for a small area in the south-east. The parish extends as far south as Cordeaux Dam. References *Parish of Wilton, County of Camden {{coord, 34, 14, S, 150, 42, E, display=title Parishes of Camden County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camden County, New South Wales
Camden 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 coastal area near Wollongong south to the Shoalhaven River, and also inland encompassing Berrima and Picton. Its western boundary was the Wollondilly River. The first settlement in the area was Camden Park, established by John Macarthur in 1806, just across the Nepean River from Cumberland County. It was the first land across the Nepean to be settled. Camden is a present-day suburb of Sydney in the same area, although parts of it are in Cumberland. Camden County is named in honour of John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden (1759–1840). The Electoral district of Western Division of Camden and the Electoral district of Eastern Division of Camden Eastern Division of Camden was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the then British colony of New South Wales from 1856 to 1857. Its name was changed to East Camd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |