Selwyn County, New South Wales
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Selwyn County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales
Cadastral divisions of New South Wales
Lands administrative divisions of New South Wales refers to the 141 counties within the Australian state of New South Wales, which are further subdivided into 7,459 parishes. There are also three Land Divisions, around 100 Land Districts, and several other types of districts as well as land boards...

. It is located to the east of the Murray River
Murray River
The Murray River is Australia's longest river. At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between New South Wales and Victoria as it...

, with part of the Tumut River
Tumut River
The Tumut River is a river in New South Wales, Australia.The Tumut River rises on the northern face of Mount Jagungal in the Snowy Mountains of southern New South Wales. It flows about 145km before joining the Murrumbidgee River, at Darbalara near the town of Gundagai...

 as its boundary to the north-east. It includes Mount Kosciusko, the highest mountain in Australia.

Selwyn County was named in honour of geologist Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn
Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn
Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, CMG, LL.D, FRS, FGS was a British geologist, director of the Geological Survey of Victoria from 1852–1869, director of Geological Survey of Canada 1869–1894 and President of the Royal Society of Canada 1895-1896.-Early life:Selwyn was born in Kilmington, Somerset,...

 (1824-1902).

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:
Parish LGA Coordinates
Beaumont  Tumbarumba Shire  35°45′54"S 148°10′04"E
Boganyera  Tumbarumba Shire  35°54′54"S 147°57′04"E
Bringenbrong  Tumbarumba Shire  36°07′54"S 148°03′04"E
Buccleuch  Tumbarumba Shire  35°44′54"S 148°18′04"E
Buddong  Tumut Shire  35°38′54"S 148°16′04"E
Burra
Burra, New South Wales
Burra is an Australian district and parish of rural smallholdings lying 20 kilometres to the south of Queanbeyan, New South Wales in Palerang Council, postcode 2620. In 2006, Burra had a population of 480 people...

 
Tumbarumba Shire  35°51′54"S 148°03′04"E
Clear Hill  Tumbarumba Shire  36°04′54"S 148°26′04"E
Cowra
Cowra, New South Wales
Cowra is a town in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia in the Cowra Shire. It is located on the Mid-Western Highway, 317 kilometres west of Sydney on the banks of the Lachlan River at an altitude of 310 metres above sea level. At the 2006 census Cowra had a population of 8,430...

 
Tumbarumba Shire  35°55′54"S 148°17′04"E
Craven  Tumbarumba Shire  35°40′54"S 147°50′04"E
Dargals  Tumbarumba Shire  36°09′54"S 148°18′04"E
Geehi  Tumbarumba Shire  36°19′54"S 148°06′04"E
Glenken  Tumbarumba Shire  35°55′54"S 147°48′04"E
Glenroy
Glenroy, New South Wales
Glenroy is a suburb of the city of Albury, New South Wales, located north-west of the Albury Central Business District and west of Lavington At the 2006 census, Glenroy had a population of 2659, although the area covered in the Census is considerably different to the actual area of the...

 
Tumbarumba Shire  35°44′54"S 147°51′04"E
Greg Greg  Tumbarumba Shire  36°03′54"S 148°03′04"E
Gungartan  Tumbarumba Shire  36°13′54"S 148°22′04"E
Hay
Hay, New South Wales
Hay is a town in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales , Australia.  It is the administrative centre of Hay Shire Local Government Area and the centre of a prosperous and productive agricultural district on the wide Hay Plains....

 
Tumbarumba Shire  35°51′54"S 148°09′04"E
Hume  Tumbarumba Shire  36°19′54"S 148°11′04"E
Indi  Tumbarumba Shire  36°13′54"S 148°04′04"E
Jagumba  Tumbarumba Shire  35°58′54"S 148°17′04"E
Jagungal  Tumbarumba Shire  36°10′54"S 148°23′04"E
Jingellic East  Tumbarumba Shire  35°52′54"S 147°45′04"E
Khancoban
Khancoban, New South Wales
Khancoban is a small town in Tumbarumba Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The town is located from the state capital, Sydney and from the state border with Victoria, in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, near the upper reaches of the Murray River...

 
Tumbarumba Shire  36°10′54"S 148°11′04"E
King  Tumbarumba Shire  35°44′54"S 148°05′04"E
Kosciusko  Tumbarumba Shire  36°30′54"S 148°12′04"E
Lea  Tumbarumba Shire  36°07′54"S 148°10′04"E
Manjar  Tumbarumba Shire  35°51′54"S 148°19′04"E
Mannus
Mannus, New South Wales
Mannus is a small rural community in the south east part of the Riverina. It is situated about 9 kilometres west from Tumbarumba and 11 kilometres east from Munderoo....

 
Tumbarumba Shire  35°49′54"S 147°57′04"E
Maragle  Tumbarumba Shire  35°53′54"S 148°09′04"E
Mate  Tumbarumba Shire  35°39′54"S 147°53′04"E
Munderoo
Munderoo, New South Wales
Munderoo is a rural community in the south east part of the Riverina. It is situated about 11 kilometres west from Mannus and 16 kilometres north from Ournie...

 
Tumbarumba Shire  35°49′54"S 147°51′04"E
Munyang  Tumbarumba Shire  36°12′54"S 148°27′04"E
Murray  Tumbarumba Shire  36°12′54"S 148°16′04"E
Nurenmerenmong  Tumbarumba Shire  35°49′54"S 148°15′04"E
Ournie
Ournie, New South Wales
Ournie is a rural community in the far south east part of the Riverina and situated about 15 kilometres north west from Welaregang and 20 kilometres south from Munderoo...

 
Tumbarumba Shire  35°56′54"S 147°52′04"E
Round Hill  Tumbarumba Shire  35°58′54"S 148°23′04"E
Scott  Tumbarumba Shire  35°59′54"S 148°30′04"E
Selwyn  Tumut Shire  35°49′54"S 148°24′04"E
Table Top  Tumut Shire  35°55′54"S 148°24′04"E
Tooma
Tooma, New South Wales
Tooma is a village community in the eastern part of the Riverina and situated about 11 kilometres east from Welaregang and 34 kilometres south from Tumbarumba.Tooma is in the valley of the Tooma River, not far from where it joins the Murray River....

 
Tumbarumba Shire  35°55′54"S 148°04′04"E
Tougaroo  Tumbarumba Shire  36°33′54"S 148°13′04"E
Tumbarumba
Tumbarumba, New South Wales
Tumbarumba is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, about 500 km southwest of Sydney. Tumbarumba is located within the Riverina region and more specifically on the South West Slopes at the western edge of the Snowy Mountains. At the 2006 Census of Population and Housing, people lived...

 
Tumbarumba Shire  35°51′54"S 148°02′04"E
Twynam  Tumbarumba Shire  36°41′54"S 148°13′04"E
Victoria  Tumbarumba Shire  36°25′54"S 148°08′04"E
Wallace  Tumbarumba Shire  35°47′54"S 148°19′04"E
Welaregang
Welaregang, New South Wales
Welaregang is a rural community in the far south east part of the Riverina and situated about 11 kilometres south west from Tooma and 15 kilometres south east from Ournie. At the 2006 census, Welaregang had a population of 162....

 
Tumbarumba Shire  35°58′54"S 147°56′04"E
Welumba  Tumbarumba Shire  35°58′54"S 148°08′04"E
Yellowin  Tumut Shire  35°27′54"S 148°14′04"E
Youngal  Tumbarumba Shire 36°13′54"S 148°10′04"E
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