User:Crouch, Swale/Parish types

Different types of civil parishes in England.

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Category 1 parishes are parishes that share the same name as a standalone Ordnance Survey settlement, check if its an OS settlement by searching on Geograph by putting part of the name into the "near" search box and seeing if [Other Settlement], [Town] or [City] show up. If something else comes up like [other features] then the place isn't an OS settlement. Some category 1 parishes may have been pre-1974 urban parishes like Sudbury that were concurrent with the urban district or like Alveston that became part of an urban district but remain separate from the larger settlement. Sometimes like Wetheral the settlement may have a different population namely the settlement having 1,130 but the parish having 6,293. The parish may also have absorbed other parishes such as Croxton Kerrial absorbing Branston.

Rules:All category 1 parishes are notable however they should have 1 combined article with the settlement of the same name. Information for both settlement and parish should be added. This generally also applies to those that have an alternative name such as Aston upon Trent where the settlement is Aston-on-Trent and would otherwise be a category parish. Generally the population of both current and former category 1 parishes should be mentioned in the lead such as Salperton except those with complicated boundary changes like Knossington and those that are (current) unparished areas like Hitchin. An exception to the combining rule is if the parish doesn't include any (or almost none) or the settlement with the same name like Scotforth (parish) but with Goosnargh the historic centre is still in the parish even though most of the newer part isn't but there is still only 1 article.

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Category 2 parishes are parishes that are OS settlements but aren't standalone settlements, they may be joined with another large settlement like Cheshunt or be part of a larger settlement like New Parks.

Rules:All category 2 parishes are notable however like category 1 parishes they should be combined with the settlement of the same name. Normally for current parishes the status of also being a parish as well as the population of the parish should be mentioned in the lead. For former parishes it generally makes sense to mention the former parish status and most recent population data in the lead for parishes that were formerly rural parishes or otherwise have some "rural" feel to them but for those like New Parks it may make more sense to not mention the former parish status and population in the lead and instead have a "Civil parish" section with this information.

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Category 3 parishes are parishes that aren't OS settlements. This includes pre-1974 rural parishes. They can be subdivided further into:

• A, those that have a "settlement" like centre of the same name that isn't an OS settlement like Linstead Parva or Abberwick and show up as [other features] on Geograph search.
• B, those that have a church like Wantisden even though the "place" doesn't show up at all on the OS namely the Geograph search only returns images matching.
• C, those like Brough with St Giles and Pinnock and Hyde that were a different type of unit like a township or chapelry but became a parish later.
• D, those formed from an amalgamation such as Nedging-with-Naughton (from "Nedging" and "Naughton" and part of Bildeston) or otherwise from an easily definable time like Shap Rural being split from Shap in 1905.
• E, those formed from a merge where the merged parish was later renamed effectively turning the original merge into an amalgamation such as Colton being merged with Marlingford in 1935 and being renamed "Marlingford and Colton" in 2001.
• F, those renamed from a settlement parish such as Northaw and Cuffley which was just "Northaw" until 1982.
• G, those like Chester Castle (parish) named after another type of place like a building.

Rules:All category 3 parishes are notable. With A, as with category 1 and 2 parishes the scope will be for the "place" as well as parish. With C the scope of the article will normally include the older division as well as the parish. With E if a merge and later a rename occurs then the scope should generally be from the merge date not rename date such as Marlingford and Colton being from 1935 (merge date) not 2001 (rename date). With F the old name namely Northaw shouldn't be referred to as a "former" parish even though with E they can be. With G often separate articles exist but this will depend on the notability of the feature and how different the parish's boundaries are to the feature.

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Category 4 parishes are parishes that were in pre-1974 urban districts (including municipal and county boroughs) that aren't category 1 or 2.

Rules:Category 4 parishes may not be notable but there is no consensus on that. The reason is that pre-1974 urban parishes did not have their own meeting or council and instead relied on the district council.