Waterford Parish, New Brunswick

The parish was said locally to be named by Mr. A. McAfee, an Irish immigrant, for Waterford, Ireland.^[5]

Waterford was erected in 1874 from Sussex Parish.^[6]

In 1875 the boundary with Hammond Parish was altered.^[7]

Waterford Parish is bounded:^{[2][8][9][10]}

• on the north by a line beginning on the Sussex Parish line at a point southeast of DeCourcey Lake and about 1.4 kilometres north-northwest of Trout Creek, then running east-northeasterly along the southern line of grants straddling Picadilly Road until it reaches the northeastern corner of a grant to David Law on the southern side of Law Road, then east-southeasterly to the northwestern line of a grant to Thomas Nicholson, on the eastern side of Morton Road west-southwesterly of Mechanic Lake, then east-northeasterly along the northern line of the Nicholson grant and its prolongation to the Albert County line;
• on the east by the Albert County line;
• on the south by a line beginning on the Albert County line at a point about 1.65 kilometres south-southeast from Route 114, then running north 88º west^[a] to the northeastern corner of a grant to William Thompson, about 450 metres south of the southern tip of Walton Lake and about 150 metres west of the Creek Road, then westerly to a point about 825 metres north of the western end of Cassidy Lake in Upham Parish;
• on the west by a line running south^[b] from the mouth of Halfway Brook in Studholm Parish.

Communities at least partly within the parish.^[8][9][10] italics indicate a name no longer in official use

Bodies of water^[c] at least partly in the parish.^[8][9][10]

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly in the parish.^{[8][9][10][13]}

• Fundy National Park
• McManus Hill Protected Natural Area
• Poley Mountain

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:^[17]

• Bessie Ella Hazen, painter, born in Waterford^[18]