| Petersham New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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) Location of the parish within Cumberland | |||||||||||||||
| Established | 1835 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Inner West Council | ||||||||||||||
| County | Cumberland | ||||||||||||||
| Hundred (former) | Sydney | ||||||||||||||
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Petersham Parish is one of the 57 parishes of Cumberland County, New South Wales,[1] a cadastral unit for use on land titles. It is located to the south of Iron Cove, Rozelle Bay and the Parramatta River, and to the north of Cooks River.[2] It includes the suburbs of Balmain, Leichhardt, Petersham, Newtown, Marrickville, Tempe, Glebe and St Peters.[3] It roughly corresponds to the eastern half of the Inner West region, with the neighbouring Parish of Concord making up the western half.
References
- ^ "Petersham". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ^ Map of Petersham 1886-1888, Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney.
- ^ Parish of Petersham, County of Cumberland , Sydney : Dept. of Lands, 1916.
