User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes

This is a list of missing civil parishes in England. See User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (1) (100 parishes) for counties A-D, User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (2) (83 parishes) for E-M and User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (3) (173 parishes) for N-Z. These are listed by ceremonial county. See User:Crouch, Swale/Communities for those in Wales which aren't included in this project but should probably still exist, see User:Crouch, Swale/List of unparished areas#Missing articles for unparished areas.

Counties

Pick the county that you live in, you grew up in, you have relatives in or you have visited etc. If you're county doesn't have any missing parishes (or you've done all of them) the you could pick some from the counties that have the most missing (North Yorkshire and County Durham). To adopt a county sign you're name in between the heading for the county and the start of the list, more than one person can adopt a county but it may be useful to check the contributions of others to see if they already have drafts to avoid duplicating work. Preferably every county should have 1 person adopting it until complete but those with many may need more, once complete the signature(s) can simply be removed. A table at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes/Table shows those that have been completed and those that haven't.

Don't feel you need to create all the parishes in a particular county, any is better than none at all. Don't worry about writing long articles, stubs are fine as long as they contain some meaningful content.

Creating

Although I have checked many of then to make sure the parish exists under the given name its possible there are a some that don't since I got most of these from the parish lists but I did check some. If you can't find the parish at the Ordnance Survey TOID try looking up the parish's district and then find it linked from there, if it doesn't appear the parish exists don't create it instead leave a note.

If the parish is named/centred on a particular place such as Turnastone the standard infobox for settlements is used namely infobox UK place, for those that aren't such as Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural the standard infobox for a civil parish is used namely (yes confusingly) infobox settlement with settlement type being "civil parish", in these articles they will tend to give only information about specifically the parish since the parish's settlements its named after will normally have their own articles and thus shouldn't be covered in the parish article but if the parish is named "X" or "Great and Little X" after "Great X" and "Little X" and information on the origin etc of "X" can be found then it can be included, see Great and Little Wigborough for example.

Things like Google and other sources you know may be helpful at finding additional sources in addition to those listed in the articles above. It may also be helpful to look at web archives or other language Wikipedia articles to find the population of parishes with less than 100 since City Population generally doesn't give them but it does still give the area of the parish.

Places that are classified as settlements on the Ordnance Survey or have articles here describing them as such should be mentioned as being in the parish if they are. To tell if a place is an OS settlement type part of the name into the "near" box on Geograph if "[Other Settlement]" comes up then it is an OS settlement, example Clatterford, you may need to type less letters if it takes you straight to a search result.

After creating

Once create it can be removed from the relevant list linked above and the ratio/percentage updated. It might be useful to check slight differences in name/alternative names such as the presence of absence of full stops or hyphens and if any also have incoming links or otherwise appear plausible to create redirects. Also if the missing parish was previously a redirect its possible there may be redirects with such similarities that also need to be changed to point to the new article for example when Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood was created, previously being a redirect to Worsthorne, Worsthorne with Hurstwood also redirected to the latter but needed changing to the former. If there is previously information specifically for the parish such as population and when the parish was formed then generally this should be moved to the parish's article, if the information was previously in an article about a settlement in the parish and the parish article is created but the settlement is the only major centre of population it may be better to also leave the population in the settlement's article as well. Information about when the settlement's previous parish was merged (if the older one had the same name as the settlement) should generally be included in the settlement's article up to the time of abolishment then future changes go to the current CP.

Redirects for settlements or other features that have been made to a place nearby may need to be changed to point to the CP but in some cases it may be more appropriate to leave as is if they belong in the more specific article. Hasthorpe for example is a place in the parish of Willoughby with Sloothby but it previously pointed to a settlement in the parish (Willoughby, Lincolnshire) which it isn't part of so the redirect was changed to the parish article.

The article can be listed at Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge#Article achievements 7001–8000.

Council names

Parishes who's council has a different name to their parish (or where the council calls the parish by a different name) should generally use the name given by the Ordnance Survey. For example in the case of Hayton, East Riding of Yorkshire the parish council's name is "Hayton and Burnby Parish Council" even though the parish is "Hayton", similarly the council of High and Low Bishopside is "Pateley Bridge Town Council". When this is the case the normal rule of combining parish with settlement will apply as with Hayton but make sure to note this in the article and the rule of having separate articles when parish name doesn't match settlement apply but the name of the council perhaps could be mentioned in the settlement the council's named after as well as the parish's article. Often such as Linstead Parva the name of the council is different because the council runs multiple CPs. Note parish councils and grouped parishes generally shouldn't have articles but rather covered in the parish articles.

Special cases etc

Those marked with "special case" are an exception to the general rule that if a parish has the same name as a settlement it should be covered in the settlement's article, the reason is like Scotforth/Scotforth (parish) is that the parish doesn't include the settlement at all and thus 2 articles should exist.

Other features that share the same name as a parish may or may not have a separate article for the parish such as Exmoor probably should but in some cases for buildings that give their name to a parish such as Markenfield Hall it might be better to just have 1 article for both since in many cases the parish can just be covered in a section but its up to you, see WP:NOPAGE, these are listed at User:Crouch, Swale/Civil parishes/Splits in the "Other places that aren't settlements" part.

Commons land parishes might not actually be parishes however they do appear to be recognized as such by the Ordnance Survey, see Bridestowe and Sourton Common for example so they actually may be individual parishes rather than land that otherwise would belong to multiple parishes.

Others marked with question marks are where I'm unsure if their name is synonymous with a settlement or not, I have attempted to provide evidence/reasoning either way but I'm still a bit unsure so it you have any information it would be of help. Note that it is possible a name that might have been synonymous in the past may be different now such as Hinton Parva (settlement and parish) v Stanbridge (settlement). Also a parish that clearly doesn't have a synonymous name as a settlement but has a large overlap should generally still be separate so things like the parish only includes 1 settlement etc aren't generally a good reason to not create but feel free not to create them.

Those marked with "create from" or "at" or "draft" at etc mean that there is a draft for the article there, in some cases it may have been deleted in which case use WP:REFUND/G13 to retrieve it, drafts can be moved to the red link or use WP:RMT if a redirects exists and you're not a page mover or administrator and the redirect has no significant history or may need a history merge if not. Those marked with "AFC" have been submitted to articles for creation.

Progress

18.6% completed (estimate)

   

There are 351 missing parishes on the lists, this percentage bar of completeness started on 24 October with 431 missing when this project was launched not when this page was created. Total number of CPs and communities is 11,351 minus 877 communities is 10,474 meaning 1 in 29.84 are missing.

96.6% completed (estimate)

   

The 2nd progress bar shows the number left compared with the total parishes in England as opposed to only those missing when this project was launched.