St. Philip Parish, Cumberland

St. Philip
New South Wales

Location in Sydney city highlighted in blue

Established:

1835

Hundred (former):

Sydney

County:

Cumberland

LGA:

City of Sydney

Cadastral units around St. Philip
Willoughby	Willoughby	Willoughby
Petersham	St. Philip	St. James
St. Andrew	St. Andrew	St. James

St. Philip Parish, Cumberland is one of the 57 parishes of Cumberland County, New South Wales, a cadastral unit for use on land titles. It is located on the western part of the original colony at Sydney Cove, which was to the west of the Tank Stream. It is one of the four small parishes in the Sydney city area, which is named after the church of St.Philip's. It includes the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, The Rocks, Dawes Point and Millers Point. It is bounded by Sydney Harbour in the north, King Street in the south, George Street in the south-east, and what was once the Tank Stream in the east (now near a small part of Hunter Street, Milton street and part of Pitt Street in the east, near but not including Circular Quay). The northern end of Darling Harbour is the boundary in the west. ^[1] It includes Wynyard railway station.

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Images of locations in the Parish of Philip:

The Dawes Point (southern) end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge	Sydney Observatory	The Rocks	Museum of Contemporary Art on the eastern end of the parish.
Wynyard Park and the block behind it is in the Parish of Philip, with the buildings in the distance in St. James	Wynyard station