22-913: Cumberland County may refer to: Australia [ edit ] Cumberland County, New South Wales the former name of Cumberland Land District , Tasmania, Australia Canada [ edit ] Cumberland County, Nova Scotia United Kingdom [ edit ] Cumberland , historic county Cumberland (unitary authority) , non-metropolitan county and district United States [ edit ] Cumberland County, Illinois Cumberland County, Kentucky Cumberland County, Maine Cumberland County, New Jersey Cumberland County, New York Cumberland County, North Carolina Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Cumberland County, Tennessee Cumberland County, Republic of Vermont Cumberland County, Virginia Fictional places [ edit ] Cumberland County, Wyoming, next door county to
44-512: A government gazette on 27 May 1835, but repealed on 21 January 1888. Unlike South Australia , the hundreds were never adopted anywhere else in New South Wales . The hundreds: In 1835, Cumberland County was subdivided into 57 parishes. Previously, the subdivisions of the area since the beginning of the colony were called districts. Many of the parishes founded in 1835 kept the name of the district. Others were named after Anglican churches in
66-675: A result, the Cumberland County Council was dissolved in 1964. Its metropolitan planning functions were taken over by a new body, the State Planning Authority , which has since been superseded by a succession of state government planning departments. As of 2019 , the planning department is the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment . There were thirteen hundreds in Cumberland County, which were published in
88-641: A single constituency: No. 1 ( Sydney ), No. 2 ( Marrickville , Canterbury ), No. 3 ( Randwick , Botany , Woollahra , Waverley ), No. 4 ( Rockdale , Hurstville , Kogarah , Sutherland ), No. 5 ( Strathfield , Ashfield , Burwood , Leichhardt , Drummoyne , Concord ), No. 6 ( Auburn , Bankstown , Holroyd , Parramatta ), No. 7 ( Mosman , Manly , North Sydney , Warringah ), No. 8 ( Hunter's Hill , Hornsby , Ku-ring-gai , Lane Cove , Ryde ), No. 9 ( Blacktown , Penrith , Baulkham Hills , Windsor ) and No. 10 ( Fairfield , Camden , Liverpool , Campbelltown , and parts of Wollondilly and Wollongong ). In 1948
110-721: Is a county in the State of New South Wales , Australia . Most of the Sydney metropolitan area is located within the County of Cumberland. The County of Cumberland stretches from Broken Bay to the north, the Hawkesbury River to the north-west, the Nepean River to the west, the Cataract River to the south-west and the northern suburbs of Wollongong to the south. It includes the area of
132-567: Is at the present day. The Hawkesbury River flows from the confluence of the Grose and Nepean Rivers at the base of the Blue Mountains . Pittwater extends south from Broken Bay and is the northernmost extent of the greater Sydney area. Pittwater's calm waters make it a popular sailing area. West Head, west of Barrenjoey Head, marks the divide between Pittwater and the Hawkesbury. Brisbane Water
154-441: Is now known as 'Broken Bay' was what was sighted by Cook. Ray Parkin in his book H. M. Bark Endeavour claims that the modern 'Broken Bay' was passed unremarked at night, and that Cook was in fact referring to the area around Narrabeen Lagoon . Matthew Flinders placed Cook's 'Broken Bay' at 33° 42' South, near to the mouth of Narrabeen Lagoon. Whatever the case, Governor Phillip was the first non-Indigenous person to examine
176-507: Is the northern arm of Broken Bay and has the towns of Gosford and Woy Woy on its shores. Lion Island , named for its profile's resemblance to a Sphinx from some viewpoints, is located at the entrance of Broken Bay. Lion Island Nature Reserve covers the entire island, and is home to a colony of fairy penguins . James Cook recorded "broken land" seen north of Port Jackson just before sunset on 7 May 1770, and named it Broken Bay. However, there has been some controversy over whether what
198-473: The Cumberland Plain . The name Cumberland was conferred by Governor Arthur Phillip in honour of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn at a gathering to celebrate the birthday of his brother, George III , on 4 June 1788. The county has been marked on maps since the start of the colony, as shown along the key on a 1789 map describing Port Jackson as being within the county of Cumberland. In
220-793: The Council published the County of Cumberland planning scheme , a framework for accommodating expected postwar growth in the Sydney Basin. The objectives of the County Council were often in conflict with the aims of many State Government departments. For instance, the County Council's plans called for a green belt to encircle metropolitan Sydney, while the NSW Housing Commission wished to use much of this land to build new low-density public housing estates in areas such as Blacktown and Liverpool . As
242-403: The County of Cumberland did have a county government, the Cumberland County Council, from 1945 to 1964. Its responsibilities were primarily limited to town planning on the metropolitan scale. The Cumberland County Council was not elected by the people, but rather was elected by councillors of the various local governments within the county. The council consisted of 10 councillors each elected to
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#1732845102006264-577: The bodies of water that separate greater Metropolitan Sydney from the Central Coast . Broken Bay is the first major bay north of Sydney Harbour in the state capital of Sydney . Broken Bay has its origin at the confluence of the Hawkesbury River , Pittwater , and Brisbane Water and flows openly into the Tasman Sea. The total surface area of the bay is approximately 17.1 square kilometres (6.6 sq mi). The entrance to Broken Bay lies between
286-616: The church , rather than the other way around. Further out of the city, the parishes of St John, St Luke, St Peter and St Matthew, in the Parramatta , Liverpool , Campbelltown and Windsor areas respectively, have Anglican churches which bear the same saints names; St John's in Parramatta (opened 1803); St.Luke's in Liverpool (building began 1818); St.Peter's in Campbelltown (opened 1823,
308-423: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cumberland_County&oldid=1228842292 " Category : County name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cumberland County, New South Wales Download coordinates as: Cumberland County
330-564: The nineteenth century, parts of the county were in the South and North Riding electoral districts from 1856 to 1859, which were replaced by Central Cumberland . There was also the Cumberland Boroughs electoral district. The State of New South Wales is divided up into 141 counties , for the purposes of surveying and the registration of land titles . Few Australian counties have ever had any government or administrative function. However,
352-471: The northern Box Head and Barrenjoey Head to the south. Barrenjoey Lighthouse was constructed in 1881 to guide ships away from the prominent headland. The bay comprises three arms, being the prominent estuary of the Hawkesbury River in the west, Pittwater to the south, and Brisbane Water to the north. These three arms are flooded rivers (rias) formed at a time when the sea level was much lower than it
374-515: The period, such as 21 districts on an 1810 map and 37 districts on an 1824 map (not including Philip which was across the Nepean River and not part of the county). The districts in use in 1824: Broken Bay Broken Bay , a semi-mature tide -dominated drowned valley estuary , is a large inlet of the Tasman Sea located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Sydney on the Central Coast of New South Wales , Australia ; being one of
396-455: The present day Broken Bay in a longboat from the Sirius on 2 March 1788. On 28 November 2005, documentary film-maker Damien Lay claimed that the wreckage of M-24 , a Japanese midget submarine involved in the attack on Sydney Harbour in 1942 and disappeared soon afterward, was buried under sand on the seabed, just east of Lion Island. Lay claimed to have confirmed that copper wiring found at
418-500: The same area. This included three of the four small parishes in the Sydney city area: The Parish of St Philip , which is named after St Philip's Church ; the Parish of St James , which is named after St James Church , and is still the name of the region today; and finally the Parish of St Andrew which is named after St Andrew's Cathedral . However, the Parish of St Lawrence gave its name to
440-477: The setting of the Longmire television series and novels by author Craig Johnson See also [ edit ] Cumberland (disambiguation) Cumberland County College [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
462-476: The site was consistent with that used in similar Japanese vessels. A few weeks later, New South Wales Planning Minister Frank Sartor announced that sonar scans conducted by the New South Wales Heritage Office at the location specified had found no trace of the lost submarine. M-24 was eventually found approximately 13 kilometres south of Broken Bay, 5 kilometres off Bungan Head , proving
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#1732845102006484-572: The third oldest Anglican church in Australia); and St. Matthew's in Windsor (consecrated in 1822) A full list of parishes found within this county; the LGAs which the parish is mostly in (most parish boundaries do not match LGA boundaries exactly), and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows: The first subdivisions of the county were called districts, shown in early maps from
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