Camden County, New South Wales


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. 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 and population of 9,663.

Parishes within this county

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:
ParishLGACoordinates
BangadillyWingecarribee Shire
BanksiaWingecarribee Shire
BargoWollondilly Shire
BelangloWingecarribee Shire
BerrimaWingecarribee Shire
Bong BongWingecarribee Shire
BroughtonCity of Shoalhaven
BugongCity of Shoalhaven
BullioWingecarribee Shire
BumballaGoulburn Mulwaree Council
BunberraCity of Shoalhaven
BundanoonWingecarribee Shire
BurkeWingecarribee Shire
BurragorangWollondilly Shire
BurrawangWingecarribee Shire
CalderwoodCity of Wollongong
CambewarraCity of Shoalhaven
CamdenCamden Council
CaouraGoulburn Mulwaree Council
ColoWingecarribee Shire
CoolangattaCity of Shoalhaven
CordeauxCity of Wollongong
CouridjahWollondilly Shire
CumbertineWingecarribee Shire
DendrobiumCity of Wollongong
IllarooCity of Shoalhaven
JamberooMunicipality of Kiama
JelloreWingecarribee Shire
JoadjaWingecarribee Shire
KangaloonWingecarribee Shire
KemblaCity of Wollongong
KiamaMunicipality of Kiama
KillawarrahWollondilly Shire
MerylaWingecarribee Shire
MittagongWingecarribee Shire
MoollattooCity of Shoalhaven
MurrimbaWingecarribee Shire
NattaiWollondilly Shire
NundiallaWingecarribee Shire
PictonWollondilly Shire
Sutton ForestWingecarribee Shire
TerragongShellharbour City Council
WallandoolaCity of Wollongong
WallayaCity of Shoalhaven
WanganderryWingecarribee Shire
WarragambaWollondilly Shire
WerombaWollondilly Shire
WerriberriWollondilly Shire
WiltonWollondilly Shire
WingelloWingecarribee Shire
WollongongCity of Wollongong
WongawilliWingecarribee Shire
WoononaCity of Wollongong
YarrawaWingecarribee Shire
YarrungaWingecarribee Shire
YarrungaCity of Shoalhaven