Parish of Alexandria

Alexandria Parish is one of the 57 parishes of Cumberland County, New South Wales, a cadastral unit for use on land titles.[1] It contains the area to the south and east of Sydney city including Bondi, Paddington and Clovelly. It was probably named after the Battle of Alexandria fought in 1801.[1] The Parish of Alexandria roughly corresponds with the "Eastern Suburbs" in the traditional narrow sense of that term. The "Eastern Suburbs" in a wide sense also includes the suburbs immediately to the south, in the Parish of Botany.

Alexandria
New South Wales
Location of the parish within Cumberland
Established1835
LGA(s)Randwick, Sydney, Woollahra, Waverley
CountyCumberland
Hundred (former)Sydney
Lands administrative divisions around Alexandria:
St Lawrence Willoughby Pacific Ocean
Petersham Alexandria Pacific Ocean
Petersham Botany Pacific Ocean

References

  1. "Alexandria Parish". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 August 2013.


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