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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.
Coordinates: 34°03′16″S 150°41′45″E. House designed by John Verge at Camden Park – built between 1832 and 1835 for John Macarthur. Camden is a historic town and suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, located 65 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district.
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Camden, town, eastern New South Wales, Australia, on the Nepean section of the Hawkesbury River, in the Macarthur region of the Southern Highlands.
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Type: Town with 3,230 residents. Description: town in New South Wales, Australia. Categories: suburb and locality. Location: Camden Council, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. -34.0532° or 34° 3' 12" south. Longitude. 150.6962° or 150° 41' 46" east.
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 ...
The Camden District is closely associated with the early history of the colony of New South Wales. Its areas were penetrated by white men as far back as 1795. The story of the loss of the early colony's cattle forms part of the early narrative of New South Wales, as those beasts which strayed from Farm Cove led to the discovery of this locality.
Camden County is named in honour of John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden (1759–1840). The Electoral district of Western Division of Camden and the Electoral district of Eastern Division of Camden were the first electoral districts for the area, between 1856 and 1859. In 1852 it had an area of 1,403,320 acres (5,679.0 km 2) and population of 9,663.
