Ginninderra Parish is one of the 54
parishes
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of
Murray County, New South Wales, a
cadastral unit for use on
land titles. It is now about half the size it was in the nineteenth century, after land in the parish was transferred to the
Australian Capital Territory in 1911. It once included what are now the north-western suburbs of
Belconnen, as well as
Hall
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and part of Western
Gungahlin, including Harcourt Hill in the modern suburb of
Nicholls.
Former boundaries
Before 1911, the Ginninderra Parish included that portion of the farmlands on the
Ginninderra Plain located between
Ginninderra Creek to the south to what is the northern boundary of the
Australian Capital Territory to the north. Gooromon Creek was the boundary in the south-west. The parish included all of the present day suburbs of
Fraser,
Dunlop,
Spence and
Charnwood; and most of
Flynn,
Melba and
Evatt (the parts north of Ginninderra Creek).
References
Parish of Ginninderra, County of Murray, 1895Map showing proposed Federal Capital Territory and tenures of land within same, Charles Robt. Scrivener, 22 May 1909*
Parishes of Canberra
Parishes of Murray County
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