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unusual facts about civil parishes in England



Abcott

It lies on the west side of the River Clun and its flood plain, just opposite from the village of Clungunford, which is the parish the hamlet is part of.

Bawtry

Bawtry is a small market town and civil parish which lies at the point where the western branch of the Roman road Ermine Street crosses the River Idle in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England and met the Great North Road.

Britwell

A civil parish was established at that point for the part of the estate that had previously lain in the Burnham civil parish.

Dunton Green

Dunton Green is a small village (forming a northern suburb of Sevenoaks) and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England, lying in the valley of the River Darent, three miles north of Sevenoaks.

Elloughton

It is conjoined with Brough that lies to the south-east, with which it forms the civil parish of Elloughton-cum-Brough.

Felbridge

Felbridge is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey with a playing field and Felbridge Nurseries within its focal area, narrowly in West Sussex.

Fisherton Delamere

Fisherton Delamere, also spelt Fisherton de la Mere and Fisherton Delamare, is a small village and former civil parish on the River Wylye, Wiltshire, England.

Hinton Ampner

Hinton Ampner House is a stately home with gardens within the civil parish of Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, England.

Kempston

Kempston Rural remains a civil parish and is part of Turvey Ward for borough election purposes.

Mitchell's Fold

Mitchell's Fold (sometimes called Medgel's Fold or Madges Pinfold) is a Bronze Age stone circle in South-West Shropshire, located near the small village of White Grit on dry heathland at the south-west end of Stapeley Hill in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton, at a height of 1083 ft (330m) o.d.

Oxenford Farm

Oxenford Farm was formerly an abbey farm, a dependency of Waverley Abbey in the civil parish of Milford, Surrey, England, with several listed buildings around a courtyard, including three by Augustus Pugin.

Rowledge

Rowledge had a Civil Parish, covering the area within Surrey, now forms part of the Waverley ward of Wrecclesham and Rowledge.

Sefton, Merseyside

From 1997 until 2010 the village and civil parish of Sefton was part of the Knowsley North and Sefton East constituency represented by George Howarth, a Labour Party MP.

St Mary of the Angels Church, Brownshill

St Mary of the Angels Church, Brownshill, is located to the south of the village of Brownshill in the parish of Chalford, Gloucestershire, England.

Wylye, Wiltshire

Wylye is a village and civil parish on the River Wylye in Wiltshire, England.


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