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Yancowinna County is one of the 141
Cadastral divisions of New South Wales For lands administrative purposes, New South Wales is divided into 141 counties, which are further divided into parishes. The counties were first set down in the Colony of New South Wales, which later became the Australian state of New Sou ...
. The county contains the city of Broken Hill (in Picton Parish) and village of Silverton (in Umberumberka Parish). The County also has the hamlets of Wallarunga/The Pinnacles and Burns; and the
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s of Tarrawingee and Purnamoota. Some New South Wales industrial relations laws have excluded the county of Yancowinna. The county is also the only part of New South Wales which is in the same time zone as
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( UTC+09:30 rather than UTC+10:00). The name Yancowinna is believed to be derived from a local Aboriginal word and is also the name of the location within the county of Yancowinna Glen.


Parishes

A full list of parishes found within this county; their current LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:


References

{{GeoGroup Counties of New South Wales