Durham County was one of the original
Nineteen Counties in
New South Wales
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and is now one of the 141
cadastral divisions of New South Wales
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. It is bordered on the south and west by the
Hunter River Hunter River may refer to:
*Hunter River (New South Wales), Australia
*Hunter River (Western Australia)
*Hunter River, New Zealand
*Hunter River (Prince Edward Island), Canada
**Hunter River, Prince Edward Island, community on Hunter River, Canada
...
, and on the north and east by the
Williams River. It includes
Aberdeen
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and
Muswellbrook
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Geologically, Muswellbrook is situated in the northern parts of the Sydney bas ...
. Before 1834, the area known as Durham County included what later became Gloucester and most of Brisbane counties, as far west as the
Liverpool Range, and east to the Pacific, including
Port Stephens, as shown on an 1832 map.
Durham County was named in honour of
John George Lambton, First Earl of Durham (1792–1840).
Parishes within this county
A full list of parishes found within this county; their current
LGA
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and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:
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Caergwrle, Allynbrook
Counties of New South Wales