Westfield Parish, New Brunswick

Westfield is a civil parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it was divided between the town of Grand Bay-Westfield and the local service district of the parish of Westfield, both of which were members of the Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC). Westfield includes the taxing authorities of Westfield East and Westfield West, which are sometimes erroneously described as LSDs in their own right.

Origin of name

The parish may have been named for the town of Westfield in Massachusetts.

Notable is that the names of Kings County's pre-1800 parishes all occur in both New Jersey and North Carolina.

History

Westfield was erected in 1786 as one of the original parishes of the county.

The 1795 reorganisation of the county affected the boundary on the Kingston Peninsula.

In 1896 the boundary on the Long Reach side of the Kingston Peninsula was altered slightly.

Boundaries

Westfield Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 157, 163, 164, and 165 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 460, 471–473, and 482–484 at same site.

* on the northwest by the Queens County line;
* on the northeast by a line beginning on the Queens County line at a point about 300 metres northeasterly of the northern end of Mud Lake, then southeasterly along the prolongation of the line dividing two grants at the mouth of Devils Back Brook to the Saint John River, then across the river to the Kingston Peninsula, at a point about 1.2 kilometres north of Williams Lake, then southeasterly along the line between two grants to Robert and Caleb Merrit and its prolongation to the rear line of a tier of grants along the Kennebecasis River, then southwesterly along the rear line of the tier and its prolongation to a point about 375 metres east of Milkish Creek, then southeasterly along the southwestern line of a grant to Stephen Baxter and its prolongation to the Saint John County line;
* on the southeast by the Saint John county line in the Kennebecasis River;
* on the west by Charlotte County line;
* including Kennebecasis Island and nearby small islands.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. bold indicates an incorporated municipality

* Bayswater
* Blagdon
* Carters Point
* Cheyne Settlement
* Crystal Beach
* Days Landing
* Hardings Point
* Keatings Corner

* Lands End
* Milkish
* Morrisdale
* Public Landing
* Sand Point
* Summerville
* Sunset Valley
* Woodmans Point

* Grand Bay-Westfield
** Epworth Park
** Grand Bay
** Hillandale
** Ingleside
** Ingleside Heights
** Lingley

* Grand Bay-Westfield
** Nerepis
** Ononette
** Pamdenec
** Westfield
** Westfield Beach
** Westfield Centre

Bodies of water

Bodies of waterNot including brooks, ponds or coves. at least partly within the parish.

* Kennebecasis River
** Milkish Channel
* Nerepis River
* Saint John River
* West Branch Musquash River
* Brittains Creek

* Cunningham Creek
* Goose Creek
* Milkish Creek
* Rancliffe Creek
* more than forty officially named lakes

Islands

Islands at least partly within the parish.
* Kennebecasis Island
* Ram Island

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.
* Lepreau River Game Management Area
* Loch Alva Protected Natural Area

Demographics

Parish population total does not include Grand Bay-Westfield

Population

Population trend

Language

Mother tongue (2016)

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas

*Highways
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*Principal Routes
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*Secondary Routes:
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*External Routes:
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See also

*List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

References

External links

Town of Grand Bay-Westfield

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Local service districts of Kings County, New Brunswick
Parishes of Kings County, New Brunswick