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On 23/02/2010 16:23, Peter Reed wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">I haven’t tried to collect parish boundaries
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I'm not sure I'm necessarily thinking rigidly in terms of parishes.
What we're actually trying to replicate is the area for which your
population statistics are being reported, which might be a parish,
might be a group of parishes that form part of a recognized
'settlement' (as you put it in your preamble). In fact, in the case of
urban areas, civil parishes were abolished for administrative purposes
a long time ago. I'm not sure that there is any sense in which (to use
the Medway example again) the towns of Rochester, Chatham, and
Gillingham can be said to have a separate administrative existence
today: the unitary authority is presumably divided into wards, but
there are probably several of these for each of those historical towns.
Is there any definition of the areas for which population is being
quoted in your source? I feel we're almost dealing with an analogous
unit to the 'ceremonial county' (as opposed to the administrative one),
but at a lower level - a recognized town or village unit within an
administrative unit.<br>
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Steve<br>
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