Cadastral divisions of New South Wales

Cadastral divisions of New South Wales

Cadastral divisions of New South Wales refers to the 141 counties within the Australian state of New South Wales, which are further subdivided into 7,459 parishes. There are also three Land Divisions, around 100 Land Districts, and several other types of districts as well as land boards used at various periods. There were also thirteen hundreds proclaimed in Cumberland County, which were later abolished. These divisions are part of the Cadastral divisions of Australia. Unlike the Local Government Areas of New South Wales, which have gone through restructuring periods by the government, the counties have been the same since the nineteenth century.

Creation of county areas

The first county proclaimed was Cumberland on 6 June 1788. Northumberland was named in 1804. Several other counties were established around Sydney; by the 1820s there were nine counties (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-t78-sd 1828] and [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-nk5976-sd 1832] maps). They were: Roxburgh, Northumberland, Durham, Westmoreland, Cumberland, Argyle, Camden, Ayr and Cambridge. They were in the approximate area of the present day cadastral units except that some of them were larger and took up land which was in 1834 assigned to other counties. Ayr and Cambridge were not used in the 1834 counties, taking up area which is approximately in what became Macquarie and Brisbane counties.

Instructions were given to Governor Brisbane in 1825 to survey New South Wales and divide it into counties of various sizes, hundreds, and parishes between 15 and 25 square miles (40 and 65 km²). The Nineteen Counties were surveyed by Thomas Mitchell in 1834. Thirteen hundreds were proclaimed in Cumberland county, but not in anywhere else in New South Wales, and these were repealed in 1888.

As the counties are based on area, rather than population, there are huge differences in the populations of the coastal counties with those for the remote west. The whole of Sydney with several million people is located within Cumberland County, while there are many counties for areas in the Far West which have a very low population.

Use

The counties have little official function and are only now used for land titles and geographic surveying, and as an area of coverage within some industrial awards. Yancowinna County is also legally the only part of the state in the South Australian timezone.

Genealogy records from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for New South Wales commonly use the town name followed by the county. The 1911 Britannica lists all towns in New South Wales the same way, such as [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Albury Albury, Goulburn county] , [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Broken_Hill Broken Hill, Yancowinna county] and [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Wagga-Wagga Wagga Wagga, Wynyard county] .

Early land districts

Parts of the land in which were outside the Nineteen Counties were divided into squatting districts in the early nineteenth century [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-nk5928-sd] . In 1846 New South Wales was divided into settled districts, intermediate districts and unsettled districts. [ [http://bossi.nsw.gov.au/assistant/BOSSI_Parish_Map.pdf The Parish Map] ] . In 1861 the system of settled and unsettled districts were abolished with the Crown Lands Acts [ [http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/archives_in_brief_93_4543.asp NSW Archives in Brief 93 - Background to conditional Purchase of Crown land] ] , while new types of districts called first and second class settled districts, as well as town land and suburban land came into being. The various districts used:

*Albert District (west of the Darling River)
*Bligh District, east of the Macquarie River. (1841 population of 402, with 118,341 sheep and 24,064 cattle) [http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk5348 Map of a portion of Australia showing the area of the twenty located counties of New South Wales, National Library of Australia, 1841.] ] In 1852, it was described as being 5 million acres (20,000 km²), with 140,000 sheep, 40,000 cattle and 2,000 horses. [http://www.oldwelshbooks.net/hlc/ga/ga07.html "Old Welsh Books with English Translations" ] ]
*Clarence River District. In 1852, it was described as being 5 million acres (20,000 km²), with 200,000 sheep, 40,000 cattle and 2,000 horses. [http://www.oldwelshbooks.net/hlc/ga/ga07.html "Old Welsh Books with English Translations" ] ]
*Gwydir District (Moree area)
*Lachlan District - between the Lachlan River and Murrumbidgee River. (1841 population of 792, with 111,154 sheep and 57,920 cattle) [http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk5348 Map of a portion of Australia showing the area of the twenty located counties of New South Wales, National Library of Australia, 1841.] ]
*Liverpool Plains District(1841 population of 1012, with 230,102 sheep, 102,738 cattle and 1045 horses) [http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk5348 Map of a portion of Australia showing the area of the twenty located counties of New South Wales, National Library of Australia, 1841.] ] In 1852, it was described as being larger than 10 million acres (40,000 km²), with 400,000 sheep, 220,000 cattle and 4,000 horses. [http://www.oldwelshbooks.net/hlc/ga/ga07.html "Old Welsh Books with English Translations" ] ] There was an Electoral district of Liverpool Plains in the same area in the nineteenth century, and the Liverpool Plains Shire Council is the modern shire.
*Lower Darling District (east of the Darling River)
*Maneroo District (south coast, now called Monaro) - south of the Moruya River and Queanbeyan River, and east of the Murrumbidgee River (1841 population of 1554, with 230,130 sheep, 78,473 cattle and 2133 horses) [http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk5348 Map of a portion of Australia showing the area of the twenty located counties of New South Wales, National Library of Australia, 1841.] ] In 1852, it was described as having 400,000 sheep, 115,000 cattle and 5,000 horses. [http://www.oldwelshbooks.net/hlc/ga/ga07.html "Old Welsh Books with English Translations" ] ]
*McLeay River District
*Murrumbidgee District (between the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers) (1841 population of 1139, with 180,654 sheep and 62,848 cattle) [http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk5348 Map of a portion of Australia showing the area of the twenty located counties of New South Wales, National Library of Australia, 1841.] ] In 1852, it was described as being 12 million acres (49,000 km²), with 400,000 sheep, 100,000 cattle and 3,000 horses. [http://www.oldwelshbooks.net/hlc/ga/ga07.html "Old Welsh Books with English Translations" ] ]
*New England District (New England region (1841 population of 702 with 201,926 sheep and 13,830 cattle) [http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk5348 Map of a portion of Australia showing the area of the twenty located counties of New South Wales, National Library of Australia, 1841.] ]
*Port Macquarie District. (1841 population of 287, with 11,642 sheep and 5,885 cattle) [http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk5348 Map of a portion of Australia showing the area of the twenty located counties of New South Wales, National Library of Australia, 1841.] ]
*Warrego District (between Darling River and Queensland border in the north)
*Wellington District, between the Lachlan River and Macquarie River. (1841 population of 656, with 119,441 sheep and 26,370 cattle) [http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk5348 Map of a portion of Australia showing the area of the twenty located counties of New South Wales, National Library of Australia, 1841.] ]

Land divisions, boards and districts

The Crown Lands Act of 1884 further divided New South Wales into three land divisions; Western, Central and Eastern; as well as Land Boards and Land Districts. [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-rm894-1-sd This 1890 map] shows 14 land boards and 95 land districts; while a [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-rm2795-sd 1907 map] shows 13 land boards and 103 land districts. The new land districts were different to the previous land districts which had mostly been used in the western areas of the state before counties were proclaimed there. The land boards were named after the location of the head office. The table below shows the land districts used in 1890 and 1907 (some of the locations of the land boards changed and there were new land districts), with the land boards and land divisions:

List of counties

A
*Argyle
*Arrawatta
*Ashburnham
*AucklandB
*Baradine
*Barrona
*Bathurst (surrounds Bathurst)
*Benarba
*Beresford
*Bland
*Blaxland
*Bligh
*Booroondarra
*Bourke
*Boyd
*Brisbane
*Buccleuch
*Buckland
*Buller
*BurnettC
*Cadell
*Caira
*Camden (contains Wollongong)
*Canbelego
*Clarence
*Clarendon
*Clarke
*Clive
*Clyde
*Cook
*Cooper
*Courallie
*Cowley
*Cowper
*Culgoa
*Cumberland
*CunninghamD
*Dampier
*Darling
*Delalah
*Denham
*Denison
*Dowling
*Drake
*Dudley
*DurhamE
*Evelyn
*EwenmarF
*Farnell
*Finch
*Fitzgerald
*Fitzroy
*Flinders
*Forbes
*FranklinG
*Georgiana
*Gipps
*Gloucester
*Gordon
*Gough
*Goulburn (contains Albury)
*Gowen
*Gregory
*Gresham
*GunderbookaH
*Harden
*Hardinge
*Hawes
*Hume
*HunterI
*Inglis (contains part of Tamworth)
*IrraraJ
*JamisonK
*Kennedy
*Kilfera
*Killara
*KingL
*Landsborough
*Leichardt
*Lincoln (contains Dubbo)
*LivingstoneM
*Macquarie
*Manara
*Menindee
*Mitchell
*Monteagle
*Mootwingee
*Mossgiel
*Mouramba
*Murchison
*MurrayN
*Nandewar
*Napier
*Narran
*Narromine
*Nicholson
*Northumberland (contains Newcastle)O
*OxleyP
*Parry (contains part of Tamworth)
*Perry
*Phillip
*Poole
*PottingerR
*Raleigh
*Rankin
*Richmond
*Robinson
*Rous
*RoxburghS
*Sandon (contains Armidale)
*Selwyn
*St. Vincent
*Stapylton
*SturtT
*Taila
*Tandora
*Tara
*Thoulcanna
*Tongowoko
*Townsend (contains Deniliquin)U
*Ularara
*UranaV
*VernonW
*Wakool
*Waljeers
*Wallace
*Waradgery
*Wellesley
*Wellington (contains Mudgee)
*Wentworth
*Werunda
*Westmoreland
*White
*Windeyer
*Woore
*Wynyard (contains Wagga Wagga)Y
*Yancowinna (contains Broken Hill)
*Yanda
*Yantara
*Young
*Yungnulgra

See also

*Land and Valuation Court of New South Wales

References

* [http://www.nla.gov.au/map/cadastral.html#nsw National Library of Australia, Cadastral maps]
* [http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/archives_in_brief_80_2141.asp State Records NSW - County and parish maps]

External links

* [http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search Geographical Names Board of NSW, Search displays counties]
* [http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search?transaction=savefile&placename=&status=None&designation=COUNTY&lga=None&
]
* [http://parishmaps.lands.nsw.gov.au/pmap.html NSW Department of Lands Parish map preservation project]


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