Cook County, New South Wales


Cook 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 includes the area to the west of Sydney in the Blue Mountains, between the Colo River in the north, and the Coxs River in the south and west, encompassing Lithgow, Mount Victoria, Katoomba, Wentworth Falls, Lawson and most of the other towns in the Blue Mountains. The Nepean River is the border to the east. Before 1834, the area was part of the Westmoreland, Northumberland and Roxburgh counties.
Cook County was named in honour of the navigator James Cook. The Electoral district of Cook and Westmoreland was the first state electoral district for the area, between 1856 and 1859.

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
BartonCity of Lithgow
BilpinCity of Hawkesbury
BlackheathCity of Blue Mountains
BowenCity of Blue Mountains
BurralowCity of Hawkesbury
CaperteeCity of Lithgow
ClwyddCity of Lithgow
ColoCity of Hawkesbury
CoobaCity of Blue Mountains
CookCity of Lithgow
CoomassieCity of Blue Mountains
CoxCity of Lithgow
CurrencyCity of Hawkesbury
FalnashCity of Lithgow
GindantherieCity of Lithgow
GoollooinboinCity of Lithgow
GovettCity of Lithgow
Govett SouthCity of Lithgow
GroseCity of Blue Mountains
HartleyCity of Lithgow
IrvineCity of Hawkesbury
JamisonCity of Blue Mountains
KanimblaCity of Lithgow
KedumbaCity of Blue Mountains
KurrajongCity of Hawkesbury
LettCity of Lithgow
LidsdaleCity of Lithgow
LindenCity of Blue Mountains
MagdalaCity of Blue Mountains
MarrangarooCity of Lithgow
MeehanCity of Hawkesbury
MegalongCity of Blue Mountains
MerrooCity of Hawkesbury
MouinCity of Blue Mountains
NepeanCity of Hawkesbury
Rock HillCity of Lithgow
StrathdonCity of Penrith
WarragambaCity of Blue Mountains
WheenyCity of Hawkesbury
WilberforceCity of Hawkesbury
WolganCity of Lithgow
WollangambeCity of Lithgow
Wollangambe NorthCity of Lithgow
WollemiCity of Hawkesbury
WoodfordCity of Blue Mountains