Sentence examples for ancient parish from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it is time to tweak the ancient parish rules.

Romsey, in the south, is an ancient parish known for its abbey founded by Saxons in 907.

The coastal resort dates from the 1880s, but the old village inland on the cliff top is built around its ancient parish church.

It is named for the ancient parish of Sefton, seat of the Molyneux family (later earls of Sefton), who were important landowners in the region from 1100 onward.

Robert William Irwin was born in 1953 in the ancient parish of Hillingdon, Middlesex, on the western outskirts of London, to a Devonshire father, Kenneth Irwin, an air traffic controller, and a Cornish mother, Rosemary Trehern.

The elaborate complexities of financing war fleets in the 14th century, of papal diplomacy, the deliberations of dithering monarchs, battle formations, the minutiae of social upheavals revealed in ancient parish records, are pepper in Sumption's mortar.

In other parts of the country many of our ancient parishes are already over-run with part-time visitors, which makes normal village life impossible.

Poulton is one of seven ancient parishes of the hundred of Amounderness.

Historically; the division into ancient parishes was linked to the manorial system, with parishes and manors often sharing the same boundaries.

The river was the boundary between the ancient parishes of Hornchurch and Upminster and the station is located on the western Hornchurch side.

It lies in the Medway Valley, on the northern edge of the Kent Weald, and adjoins the ancient parishes of Larkfield, Aylesford and Barming.