NSW Parish Administrative Boundaries with 7,459 Historical Land Divisions

7,459 administrative parish boundaries within New South Wales, Australia, formed by the division of 141 counties. The dataset is part of the NSW Administrative Boundaries Theme, maintained by Spatial Services (DCS) and initially published on 05/02/2020. It contains historical land administration boundaries that are topologically aligned with land parcel and property data.

Use Cases

• Historical land administration research based on parish and county names.
• Cadastral data alignment and maintenance workflows based on topological alignment with land parcel polygons.
• Mapping historical land divisions and their relationship to Crown land disposal (portions, sections, allotments).

Strengths

• Contains 7,459 distinct administrative parish areas.
• Features are positioned in topological alignment with land and property polygons.
• Dataset is part of a formal administrative boundaries theme with a stated update process.

Limitations

• The service is scheduled for retirement, requiring transition to a GDA2020 version.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and historical bias inherent to the source maps.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS), data_gov_au

Collection Method

Digitized from historical Parish and County maps held at State Records.

Time Range

Historical; original definition is static but data moves with cadastral changes.

Freshness

Last platform update recorded on 2026-04-08; data currency is listed as 01/01/3000, indicating a static historical dataset.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia