St John Parish is one of the 57 parishes of

Cumberland County, New South Wales 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 Broken Bay to the north, the Hawkesbury River t ...

, a cadastral unit for use on land titles. It is named after St John's CathedralSt John's Church, Parramatta
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Parramatta Parramatta () is a suburb and major Central business district, commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district on the ban ...

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which opened in 1803, on which the civil parish is roughly centred. The parish is shaped like a " T", with the northern part stretching from Toongabbie to the western shore of

Homebush Bay Homebush Bay is a bay on the south bank of the Parramatta River, in the west of Sydney, Australia. The name is also sometimes used to refer to an area to the west and south of the bay itself, which was formerly an official suburb of Sydney, ...

. The southern end is at Prospect Creek near Yennora. Woodville Road and Parramatta Road form the boundaries to the south-east. The Old Prospect Road is part of the boundary in the west. Historically and until the reorganisation of

local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a State (administrative division), state, province, divi ...

s in 2016, St John Parish largely corresponded with the boundaries of the

City of Parramatta The City of Parramatta, also known as Parramatta Council, is a local government area located west of central Sydney in the Greater Western Sydney region. Parramatta Council is situated between the City of Ryde and Cumberland, where the Cumberl ...

. Since the 2016 reorganisation, the northern part of the parish (the horizontal stroke of the "T") is largely in the

, while the southern part is largely in Cumberland City Council. It includes the suburbs of Merrylands,

Silverwater Silverwater is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Silverwater is located 15 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district on the southern bank of the Parramatta River within the local govern ...

, Westmead,

Fairfield East Fairfield East is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Fairfield East is located west of the Sydney central business district in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the City of Fairfield. Fairf ...

Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ...

and

Wentworth Point Wentworth Point is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 13 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, on the eastern edge of the local government area of City of Parramatta. It is on t ...

References

* Parishes of Cumberland County {{Sydney-geo-stub