[3] The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, mainly wheat, and sheep.
There are no towns and the nearest settlement is Wanaaring, New South Wales, and then Hungerford, Queensland.
The Queensland and New South Wales border runs along the northern boundary of the parish.
The first Europeans through the area were Burke and Wills and in the 1890s it was included in the Albert Goldfields.
The cattle station of Elsinora Downs gave its name to the parish.