On 18 Mar 2002 at 11:56, A Paul R Cooper wrote:
> But what do you mean by a parish? Ecclesiastical parishes and civil parishes aren't always identical, certainly not these days when both civil and church authorities have redrawn boundaries independently of each other. Obviously they started out the same, but have developed to fill different
needs. Parish boundaries are more fluid than most people realise, in these days of changing demographic patterns and the planting of new villages in our countryside.
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> Paul Cooper
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Please ammend the planting of 'new villages' to that of small towns.
The 'Warndon Villages' site to the north east of Worcester in no way
resemble the new three villages as was the original artists 'impression'.
More a sprawl of post modernist house built to resemble Victorian
cottage rural architecture with original and new tree plantations here
and there.
Alan
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> The recent interesting correspondence on the subject of county boundaries puts me in mind to ask the following.
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> Does anyone know of a straightforward published list of the alterations that have been made to county boundaries between 1844 and 1974 - ie something in the form of:
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> parish X was moved from county A to county B on such and such a date as a consequence of such and such Act of Parliament.
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> One can of course obtain this information by going through Kelly's Directories, or other such sources, if only one had the time, but surely somewhere someone has already done this and put together a simple listing, presumably chronologically arranged?
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> Roger Hellyer
Alan Magnus-Bennett
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