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Civil parish

Index Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. [1]

150 relations: Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601, Ad hoc, Advowson, Agricultural diversification, Allotment (gardening), Bath and North East Somerset, Bath, Somerset, Beaumont Chase, Birmingham, Birtley, Tyne and Wear, Britain in Bloom, British Armed Forces, Brixham, Burton upon Trent, Cambridgeshire, Catholic Church, Cemetery, Chapel of ease, Chapelry, Charitable organization, Charter trustees, Chester, Chester Castle (parish), Chichester, Church of England, City of London, City status in the United Kingdom, Closed-circuit television, Co-option, Committee on Standards in Public Life, Community, Community (Wales), Council Tax, Councillor, Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844, Counties of England, Cowley, London, Daventry, Direct democracy, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Districts of England, Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1882, Election, Elizabeth I of England, Ely, Cambridgeshire, Enclave and exclave, England, Extra-parochial area, Feudalism, Folkestone, ..., Footpath, Grant (money), Great Coates, Greater London, Hamlet (place), Henry VIII of England, Hereford, Herefordshire, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Ely, Justice of the peace, Knights of the Shire, Lancashire, Lichfield, List of cathedrals in England and Wales, List of civil parishes in England, List of county exclaves in England and Wales 1844–1974, List of mayors and provosts in the United Kingdom, List of the most populous civil parishes in England, Local Government Act 1894, Local Government Act 1972, Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, Local Government and Rating Act 1997, Localism Act 2011, London, London boroughs, Lord of the manor, Manor, Manorial court, Manorialism, Martinsthorpe, Mayors in England, Meering, Methodism, Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England, Metropolitan borough, Milton Keynes, Minibus, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Mischief rule, Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Municipal borough, Municipal Borough of Enfield, Neighbourhood, New Frankley, Newland with Woodhouse Moor, Non-metropolitan district, North East Lincolnshire, Northampton, Office of Public Sector Information, Oxford, Parish, Parish (administrative division), Parish councils in England, Parish meeting, Parochial church council, Petition, Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, Poor law union, Queen's Park, London, Rates (tax), Rector (ecclesiastical), Ripon, Royal assent, Rural district, Salisbury, Sanitary district, Southsea, St George Hanover Square, Standards Board for England, Stanground North, Stanground, Peterborough, Statute, Street light, Sturston, Norfolk, Subsidiarity, Successor parish, Tetworth, Tithe, Todmorden, Tottington, Norfolk, Town, Town and country planning in the United Kingdom, Town council, Township (England), Traffic calming, Truro, Tyneham, Unitary authority, Unparished area, Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), Vestry, Victoria County History, Village, Village green, War memorial, Wells, Somerset, Weston-super-Mare, World War II, Yorkshire. Expand index (100 more) »

Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601

The Poor Relief Act 1601 (43 Eliz 1 c 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England.

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Ad hoc

Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning literally "for this".

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Advowson

Advowson (or "patronage") is the right in English law of a patron (avowee) to present to the diocesan bishop (or in some cases the ordinary if not the same person) a nominee for appointment to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church living, a process known as presentation (jus praesentandi, Latin: "the right of presenting").

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Agricultural diversification

In the agricultural context, diversification can be regarded as the re-allocation of some of a farm's productive resources, such as land, capital, farm equipment and pices to other farmers and, particularly in richer countries, non-farming activities such as restaurants and shops.

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Allotment (gardening)

An allotment garden (British English), often called simply an allotment, or a community garden (North America) is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants.

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Bath and North East Somerset

Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is the district of the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset Council that was created on 1 April 1996 following the abolition of the county of Avon.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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Beaumont Chase

Beaumont Chase is a civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Birtley, Tyne and Wear

Birtley is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Britain in Bloom

RHS Britain in Bloom is the largest horticultural campaign in the United Kingdom.

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British Armed Forces

The British Armed Forces, also known as Her/His Majesty's Armed Forces, are the military services responsible for the defence of the United Kingdom, its overseas territories and the Crown dependencies.

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Brixham

Brixham is a small fishing town and civil parish in the district of Torbay in the county of Devon, in the south-west of England.

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Burton upon Trent

Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a town on the River Trent in East Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.), is an East Anglian county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cemetery

A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

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Chapel of ease

A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.

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Chapelry

A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is a non-profit organization (NPO) whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. charitable, educational, religious, or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Charter trustees

In England and Wales, charter trustees are set up to maintain the continuity of a town charter or city charter after a district with the status of a borough or city has been abolished, until such time as a parish council is established.

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Chester

Chester (Caer) is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales.

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Chester Castle (parish)

Chester Castle is an area around the castle in Chester.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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City status in the United Kingdom

City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the monarch of the United Kingdom to a select group of communities:, there are 69 cities in the United Kingdom – 51 in England, six in Wales, seven in Scotland and five in Northern Ireland.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Co-option

Co-option (also co-optation, sometimes spelled coöption or coöptation) has two common meanings.

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Committee on Standards in Public Life

The Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) is an advisory non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom Government, established in 1994 to advise the Prime Minister on ethical standards of public life.

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Community

A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.

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Community (Wales)

A community (cymuned) is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales.

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Council Tax

Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Councillor

A Councillor is a member of a local government council.

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Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844

The Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 61), which came into effect on 20 October 1844, was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which eliminated many outliers or exclaves of counties in England and Wales for civil purposes.

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Counties of England

The counties of England are areas used for the purposes of administrative, geographical, cultural or political demarcation.

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Cowley, London

Cowley is a village contiguous with the town of Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Daventry

Daventry (historically) is a market town in Northamptonshire, England, with a population of 25,026.

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Direct democracy

Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.

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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Districts of England

The districts of England (also known as local authority districts or local government districts to distinguish from unofficial city districts) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government.

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Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1882

Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act 1882 was an Act of Parliament in Britain which gave the Local Government Board increased powers relating to dissolving and creating Poor Law Unions.

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Election

An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.

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Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.

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Ely, Cambridgeshire

Ely is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, about north-northeast of Cambridge and about by road from London.

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Enclave and exclave

An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Extra-parochial area

In England and Wales, an extra-parochial area, extra-parochial place or extra-parochial district was a geographically defined area considered to be outside any eccelesiastical or civil parish.

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Feudalism

Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.

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Folkestone

Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England.

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Footpath

A footpath (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) is a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use only by pedestrians and not other forms of traffic such as motorized vehicles, cycles, and horses.

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Grant (money)

Grants are non-repayable funds or products disbursed or gifted by one party (grant makers), often a government department, corporation, foundation or trust, to a recipient, often (but not always) a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual.

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Great Coates

Great Coates is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England.

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Greater London

Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.

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Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is a small human settlement.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council.

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Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire (abbreviated Hunts) is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire, as well as a historic county of England.

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Isle of Ely

The Isle of Ely is a historic region around the city of Ely in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer, of a lower or puisne court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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Knights of the Shire

Knights of the shire (milites comitatus) was the formal title for members of parliament (MPs) representing a county constituency in the British House of Commons, from its origins in the medieval Parliament of England until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 ended the practice of each county (or shire) forming a single constituency.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lichfield

Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England.

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List of cathedrals in England and Wales

This is a list of cathedrals in England and Wales and the Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man, Gibraltar and those in the Channel Islands, by country.

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List of civil parishes in England

This is a list of civil parishes in England split by ceremonial county (see map below).

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List of county exclaves in England and Wales 1844–1974

Until 1844, many of the counties in England and Wales had exclaves or detached parts, entirely surrounded by other counties.

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List of mayors and provosts in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the internal divisions of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland each have a different system of local government.

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List of the most populous civil parishes in England

This is a list of the most populous civil parishes in England.

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Local Government Act 1894

The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London.

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Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.

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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007

The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c 28) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Local Government and Rating Act 1997

The Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (c. 29) allows a community at the village, neighbourhood, town or similar level beneath a district or borough council to demand its own elected parish or town council.

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Localism Act 2011

The Localism Act 2011 (c. 20) is an Act of Parliament that changes the powers of local government in England.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London boroughs

The London boroughs are 32 of the 33 local authority districts of the Greater London administrative area (the 33rd is the City of London).

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Lord of the manor

In British or Irish history, the lordship of a manor is a lordship emanating from the feudal system of manorialism.

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Manor

A manor in English law is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court.

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Manorial court

The manorial courts were the lowest courts of law in England during the feudal period.

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Manorialism

Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society.

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Martinsthorpe

Martinsthorpe is a civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England and a deserted village.

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Mayors in England

In England, the offices of mayor and lord mayor have long been ceremonial posts, with few or no duties attached to them.

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Meering

Meering is a geographically small civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England

Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties are one of the four levels of subdivisions of England used for the purposes of local government outside Greater London and the Isles of Scilly.

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Metropolitan borough

A metropolitan borough is a type of local government district in England, and is a subdivision of a metropolitan county.

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Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes, locally abbreviated to MK, is a large townAlthough Milton Keynes was specified to be a city in scale and the term "city" is used locally (inter alia to avoid confusion with its constituent towns), formally this title cannot be used.

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Minibus

A minibus, microbus, or minicoach is a passenger carrying motor vehicle that is designed to carry more people than a multi-purpose vehicle or minivan, but fewer people than a full-size bus.

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is the UK Government department for Housing, communities and local government in England.

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Mischief rule

The mischief rule is one of three rules of statutory interpretation traditionally applied by English courts.

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Monarchy of the United Kingdom

The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom, its dependencies and its overseas territories.

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Municipal borough

Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002.

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Municipal Borough of Enfield

Enfield was a local government district in Middlesex, England from 1850 to 1965.

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Neighbourhood

A neighbourhood (British English), or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences), is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area.

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New Frankley

New Frankley in Birmingham is a civil parish in Birmingham, England.

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Newland with Woodhouse Moor

Newland with Woodhouse Moor is a civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, consisting of some open countryside west of Normanton, including Newland Hall.

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Non-metropolitan district

Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of local government district in England.

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North East Lincolnshire

North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire in England.

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Northampton

Northampton is the county town of Northamptonshire in the East Midlands of England.

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Office of Public Sector Information

The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Parish (administrative division)

A parish is an administrative division used by several countries.

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Parish councils in England

A parish council is a civil local authority found in England and is the first tier of local government.

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Parish meeting

A parish meeting, in England, is a meeting to which all the electors in a civil parish are entitled to attend.

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Parochial church council

A parochial church council (PCC) is the executive committee of a Church of England parish and consists of clergy and churchwardens of the parish, together with representatives of the laity.

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Petition

A petition is a request to do something, most commonly addressed to a government official or public entity.

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Poor Law Amendment Act 1834

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 (PLAA), known widely as the New Poor Law, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the Whig government of Earl Grey.

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Poor law union

A poor law union was a geographical territory, and early local government unit, in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Queen's Park, London

Queen's Park is an affluent area in London located north-west of Charing Cross.

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Rates (tax)

Rates are a type of property tax system in the United Kingdom, and in places with systems deriving from the British one, the proceeds of which are used to fund local government.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Ripon

Ripon is a cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England.

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Royal assent

Royal assent or sanction is the method by which a country's monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament.

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Rural district

Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the administrative counties.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.

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Sanitary district

Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1875 and in Ireland in 1878.

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Southsea

Southsea is a seaside resort and geographic area, located in Portsmouth at the southern end of Portsea Island, Hampshire, England.

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St George Hanover Square

St George Hanover Square was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England.

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Standards Board for England

The Standards Board for England was a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Communities and Local Government.

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Stanground North

Stanground North was a civil parish in the City of Peterborough, England.

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Stanground, Peterborough

Stanground is a residential area in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom.

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Statute

A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a city, state, or country.

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Street light

A street light, light pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path.

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Sturston, Norfolk

Sturston is a deserted village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Subsidiarity

Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate (or local) level that is consistent with their resolution.

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Successor parish

Successor parishes are civil parishes with a parish council created by the Local Government Act 1972 in England.

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Tetworth

Tetworth is a village in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Tithe

A tithe (from Old English: teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government.

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Todmorden

Todmorden (locally or) is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.

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Tottington, Norfolk

Tottington is a deserted village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Town

A town is a human settlement.

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Town and country planning in the United Kingdom

Town and country planning in the United Kingdom is the part of English land law which concerns land use planning.

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Town council

A town council, village council or rural council is a form of local government for small municipalities.

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Township (England)

In England, a township (Latin: villa) is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church.

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Traffic calming

Traffic calming uses physical design and other measures to improve safety for motorists, pedestrians and cyclists.

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Truro

Truro (Truru) is a city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Tyneham

Tyneham is a ghost village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in south Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck.

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Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government.

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Unparished area

In England, an unparished area is an area that is not covered by a civil parish (a small administrative division of local government, not to be confused with an ecclesiastical parish).

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Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)

In England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area.

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Vestry

A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government for a parish in England and Wales, which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquially as the "vestry".

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.

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Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

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Village green

A village green is a common open area within a village or other settlement.

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War memorial

A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war.

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Wells, Somerset

Wells is a cathedral city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills.

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Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare is a seaside town in Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel south west of Bristol between Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_parish

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