Canberra Parish is a former

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Murray County, New South Wales Murray County was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 Lands administrative divisions of New South Wales. It included the area which is now part of Canberra and as far north as Lake George (New ...

, a cadastral unit for use on

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. It was formed in the nineteenth century, and existed until 1 January 1911, when the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910 came into force, after the land was transferred to the Commonwealth government in 1909 to be used to form the

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. It is one of the four former parishes of Murray County which became part of the ACT, along with Yarrolumla,

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and Gigerline. While other parishes lost land to the ACT, these were the only ones to lose all of the land within the parish. It included what is now

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, as well as most of

North Canberra North Canberra, or the Inner North, is a subdivision of Canberra Central in the Australian Capital Territory in Australia. Comprising 14 suburbs. At the , it had 26,699 dwellings housing 61,188 people of the 453,324 people in the Australian Capi ...

. It was bounded to the south by the

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(now

Lake Burley Griffin Lake Burley Griffin is an artificial lake in the centre of Canberra, the capital of Australia. It was created in 1963 by the damming of the Molonglo River, which formerly ran between the city centre and Parliamentary Triangle. The lake is na ...

), while on the west the boundary was on the western side of Black Mountain, and on the east the boundary was on the eastern side of

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, thus including both mountains. It went as far north as

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. The boundary to the east ran between Mount Ainslie and

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, so it did not include Mount Majura.

References

Parish of Canberra, County of Murray
– National Library of Australia
Map showing proposed Federal Capital Territory and tenures of land within same, Charles Robt. Scrivener, 22 May 1909
Parishes of Canberra Parishes of Murray County {{NewSouthWales-geo-stub