St. Philip Parish, Cumberland

Infobox Australian cadastral
name = St. Philip
state = New South Wales

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imagesize = 180px
caption = Location in Sydney city highlighted in blue
lga = City of Sydney
county = Cumberland
former hundred = Sydney
est = 1835
near-nw = Willoughby
near-n = Willoughby
near-ne = Willoughby
near-e = St. James
near-se = St. James
near-s = St. Andrew
near-sw = St. Andrew
near-w = Petersham

St. Philip Parish, Cumberland is one of the 57 parishes of Cumberland County, New South Wales, a cadastral unit for use on land titles. It is located on the western part of the original colony at Sydney Cove, which was to the west of the Tank Stream. It is one of the four small parishes in the Sydney city area, which is named after the church of [http://www.stphilips-sydney.org.au/history.html St.Philip's] . It includes the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, The Rocks, Dawes Point and Millers Point. It is bounded by Sydney Harbour in the north, King Street in the south, George Street in the south-east, and what was once the Tank Stream in the east (now near a small part of Hunter Street, Milton street and part of Pitt Street in the east, near but not including Circular Quay). The northern end of Darling Harbour is the boundary in the west. [Information obtained from [http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au/survey_mapping/maps_and_imagery/parish_maps maps available at the NSW Dept. of Lands Parish map preservation project] ] It includes Wynyard railway station.

Locations

Images of locations in the Parish of Philip:

References

* [http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search/extract?id=TRjLZxtLJP Geographic Names Board of New South Wales]
* [http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an000041232971 Map of the Parish of St. Philip] , County of Cumberland, 1930, National Library of Australia