Parish of Cowan explained

thumb|right|Berowra_Park.The Parish of Cowan, is a civil parish of the County of Cumberland.

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

Cowan is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning 'opposite', 'other side'^[2] or 'big water'.^[3] in the language of the Guringgai tribe, a Sydney Aboriginal Clan of the area.

Today much of the parish is National Park, though the towns of Cowan and Brooklyn, New South Wales are in the Parish.

The Sydney to Newcastle Freeway and Central Coast and Sydney to Newcastle Railway Lines pass through the Parish.

See also

• Cowan, New South Wales
• Hundred of Cowan South Australia

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).
2. Joan Rowland (2008), "Cowan". Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
3. News: PLACE NAMES. . The Australian Women's Weekly. 13 May 1964 . 22 February 2011 . 61 . National Library of Australia.