Parish of Berowra

Map showing the Parish of Gidley, 1886.[1]
Berowra_Park.

The Parish of Berowra, 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.[2]

Berowra is an 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 National Park

See also

References

  1. ↑ John Sands, 1886 map.
  2. ↑ PL Bemi, Map of the Parish of Gidley, 1822 (Surveyor General's Dept of New South Wales (signed) Edward Knapp LS).

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