The Parish of Berowra is a civil parish of the County of Cumberland, New South Wales, Australia.

Berowra
New South Wales
Location of the parish within Cumberland County
Coordinates33°33′54″S 151°05′04″E / 33.56500°S 151.08444°E / -33.56500; 151.08444
Gazetted08-10-1976
LGA(s)Hornsby Shire
CountyCumberland
Hundred (former)Sydney
Map showing the Parish of Gidley, 1886.[1]
Berowra_Park.

The parish is in the Hundred of Dundas and Hornsby Shire Council. The parish is on the Hawkesbury River.[2]

Berowra is a word that means place of many shells in the language of the Guringgai tribe, a Sydney Aboriginal Clan of the area. The Berowra area has many Aboriginal carvings and is the site of the world's oldest living amphibian fossil. Today much of the parish is a National Park.

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References

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  1. ^ John Sands, 1886 map.
  2. ^ PL Bemi, Map of the Parish of Gidley, 1822 (Surveyor General's Dept of New South Wales (signed) Edward Knapp LS).