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Camden County, New South Wales

Camden
New South Wales
Camden NSW.PNG
Location in New South Wales
Lands administrative divisions around Camden:
Westmoreland Cook Cumberland
Argyle Camden Pacific Ocean
Argyle St Vincent Pacific Ocean

Camden County was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It included the coastal area near Wollongong south to the Shoalhaven River, and also inland encompassing Berrima and Picton. Its western boundary was the Wollondilly River. The first settlement in the area was Camden Park, established by John Macarthur in 1806, just across the Nepean River from Cumberland County. It was the first land across the Nepean to be settled. Camden is a present-day suburb of Sydney in the same area, although parts of it are in Cumberland.

Camden County is named in honour of John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden (1759–1840). The Electoral district of Western Division of Camden was one of the first electoral districts for the area, between 1856 and 1859.

In 1852 it had an area of 1,403,320 acres (5,679.0 km2) and population of 9,663.

A full list of parishes found within this county; their current LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:


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