Parish of Berowra explained

Type:cadastral
Berowra
State:nsw
Image Upright:0.81
Map Type:nomap
Coordinates:-33.565°N 151.0844°W
Lga:Hornsby Shire
County:Cumberland
Former Hundred:Sydney
Gazetted:08-10-1976

thumb|right|Berowra_Park.The Parish of Berowra is a civil parish of the County of Cumberland, New South Wales, Australia.

The parish is in the Hundred of Dundas and Hornsby Shire Council. The parish is on the Hawkesbury River.[1]

Berowra is a word that means place of many shells in the language of the Guringgai tribe, a Sydney Aboriginal Clan of the area. The Berowra area has many Aboriginal carvings and is the site of the world's oldest living amphibian fossil. Today much of the parish is a National Park.

See also

Notes and References

  1. PL Bemi, Map of the Parish of Gidley, 1822 (Surveyor General's Dept of New South Wales (signed) Edward Knapp LS).