Buckland County
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Buckland County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It is situated between a small part of the Namoi River in the north to the Liverpool Range in the south. The Mooki River is the boundary to the west. It includes Quirindi.
Buckland County was proclaimed as a county on December 30, 1848 as one of 15 counties then proclaimed Description:-'County of Buckland, containing about 1,484 square miles (3,840 km2). Whilst no official record of naming of the county has been found and there can be no certainty as to the person after whom it was named it is considered possible that the county was named in honour of the Reverend Dr. Buckland.[1]
Parishes within this county
[edit]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:
References
[edit]- ^ "Buckland County". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.