On 14/09/15 08:53, Mark Goodge wrote: > Historically, the distinction between a hamlet, a village and a town was > based on ecclesiastical parishes. A village was a populated area > comprising a parish of its own, with one parish church. A town was a > contiguous populated area comprising multiple ecclesiastical parishes, > while a hamlet was a populated area too small to have its own parish > (and thus being contained within another one, either a village parish or > an outlying area of a town parish).
What also muddies this picture is the closure and combination of parish churches while retaining the political distinction. > This official distinction has been lost over the years with multiple > phases of local government reorganisation, but it still provides a good > rule of thumb. > > In England and Wales, a civil parish council can choose to style itself > a town council if it wishes. The majority of those which have done so > are those which, prior to the Local Government Act 1972, would have been > a Municipal Borough (eg, Evesham or Lewes) and which meet the historical > definition of a town, but by no means all of them fall into this category. The exceptions to the rule come to mind. > What that means is that population alone is a no more than a rough guide > to the likely status of a town or village, at least in England and > Wales. There's a significant overlap between the largest villages and > the smallest towns. In the first instance it is what the local preference is. Broadway is likely to remain a 'Cotswold Village' and is tagged as such on OSM, but has an identity crisis on wikipedia. The missing piece of the jigsaw is around 500 people live in the parish, but not in Broadway itself. Our own enclave is probably one unnamed 'hamlet', and I think there are potentially another couple, but I think what is missing is the outline of what ONS classify as the 'built up area' of Broadway ... And the boundaries of the parishes in Gloucestershire are missing as well ... another one for the todo list :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
