St Philip Parish is one of the 57 parishes of
Cumberland County, New South Wales, a
cadastral unit for use on
land titles. It is located on the western part of the original colony at
Sydney Cove
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, which was to the west of the
Tank Stream. It is one of the four small parishes in the
Sydney
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city area (together with St Andrew, St Lawrence and St James) and is named after the church of
St Philip's. It includes the southern end of the
Sydney Harbour Bridge,
The Rocks,
Dawes Point
Dawes Point is a suburb of the City of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Dawes Point is located on the north-western edge of the Sydney central business district, at the southern end of Sydney Harbour Bridge, adjacent to The R ...
and
Millers Point
Millers Point is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is on the north-western edge of the Sydney central business district, adjacent to The Rocks and is part of the local government area of the C ...
. It is bounded by
Sydney Harbour
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in the north,
King Street in the south,
George Street in the south-east, and what was once the Tank Stream in the east (now near a small part of
Hunter Street, Milton street and part of
Pitt Street in the east, near but not including
Circular Quay). The northern end of
Darling Harbour
Darling Harbour is a harbour adjacent to the city centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that is made up of a large recreational and pedestrian precinct that is situated on western outskirts of the Sydney central business district.
Origin ...
is the boundary in the west.
[Information obtained fro]
maps available at the NSW Dept. of Lands Parish map preservation project
It includes
Wynyard railway station.
Locations
Images of locations in the Parish of St Philip:
Image:SydneyHarbourBridge2 gobeirne.jpg, The Dawes Point
Dawes Point is a suburb of the City of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Dawes Point is located on the north-western edge of the Sydney central business district, at the southern end of Sydney Harbour Bridge, adjacent to The R ...
(southern) end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Image:ObservatorySydney1874.jpg, Sydney Observatory
Image:SydneyTheRocks1 gobeirne.jpg, The Rocks
Image:St Philip's Church (Edmund Blacket), Sydney - Wiki0045.jpg, The tower of St Philip's Church, Sydney, (1848–58)
Image:SydneyMuseumContemporaryArt gobeirne.jpg, Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to:
Africa
* Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi
Asia East Asia
* Museum of Contemporary Art Shangha ...
on the eastern end of the parish.
Image:Wynyard Park Sydney.jpg, Wynyard Park and the block behind it is in the Parish of Philip, with the buildings in the distance in St James Saint James or St. James may refer to:
People Saints
*James, brother of Jesus (died 62 or 69), also known as James the Just
*James the Great (died 44), Apostle, also known as James, son of Zebedee, or Saint James the Greater
**Saint James Matamoro ...
Image:Wynyard Station entrance1.JPG, Wynyard station
References
*
Map of the Parish of St. Philip County of Cumberland, 1930, National Library of Australia
Parishes of Cumberland County
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