Parish of St George
St George Parish is one of the 57 parishes of Cumberland County, New South Wales, a cadastral unit for use on land titles.[1] The name is used as the region name today.
The St George Illawarra Dragons leagues club, the name of the football team came indirectly from the original parish name.
Parish of St George, New South Wales in 1840.[2]
| St George New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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 Location of the parish within Cumberland | |||||||||||||||
| Established | 1835 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Canterbury-Bankstown, Georges River Council, Bayside Council | ||||||||||||||
| County | Cumberland | ||||||||||||||
| Hundred (former) | Sydney | ||||||||||||||
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References
- "St George". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.
- William Henry Wells, A map of the County of Cumberland in the Colony of New South Wales (William Baker, 1840).
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