St Philip Parish is one of the 57 parishes of

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, a cadastral unit for use on

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. It is located on the western part of the original colony at

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, which was to the west of the

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. It is one of the four small parishes in the

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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 Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, spanning Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour from the Sydney central business district, central business district (CBD) to the North Shore (Sydney), North ...

, The Rocks,

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and

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. It is bounded by

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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 Pitt Street is a major street in the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia. The street runs through the entire city centre from Circular Quay in the north to Waterloo, although today's street is in two disjointed sect ...

in the east, near but not including

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). The northern end of

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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

(southern) end of the

Image:ObservatorySydney1874.jpg,

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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,

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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 *James, son of Alphaeu ...

Image:Wynyard Station entrance1.JPG, Wynyard station

References

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Map of the Parish of St. Philip
County of Cumberland, 1930, National Library of Australia Parishes of Cumberland County {{Sydney-geo-stub