Yancowinna County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales.
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The county contains the city of Broken Hill (in Picton Parish) and village of Silverton (in Umberumberka Parish). The County also has the hamlets of Wallarunga/The Pinnacles and Burns; and the ghost towns of Tarrawingee and Purnamoota.
Some New South Wales industrial relations laws have excluded the county of Yancowinna.[1] The county is also the only part of New South Wales which is in the same time zone as South Australia (UTC+09:30 rather than UTC+10:00).[2]
The name Yancowinna is believed to be derived from a local Aboriginal word and is also the name of the location within the county of Yancowinna Glen.[3]
Parishes
editA full list of parishes found within this county; their current LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows:
References
edit- ^ "NSW Office of Industrial Relations: Awards Online". www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 22 March 2008.
- ^ "New South Wales". www.greenwichmeantime.com. Retrieved 22 March 2008.
- ^ "Yancowinna". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
