Cowley County is one of the 141

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. It contains the locality of

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. It was originally bordered on the north, east and part of the south by the

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, and on the west by the

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. A large part of the county was transferred to the Commonwealth to make the

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in 1909, with the remaining part the area to the north-west of the ACT as far north as the

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, and thin strips of land along the western, southern and south-eastern borders of the ACT. Cowley County is named in honour of

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, First Earl Cowley (1804–1884).

Parishes within this county

A full list of parishes found within this county including the 15 former parishes which are now part of the ACT; their current

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and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:

References

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County of Cowley and Co. Buccleuch New South Wales, 1871 map
National Library of Australia
Districts Act 1966
Counties of New South Wales