[Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Mon Sep 14 10:27:09 UTC 2015


On 14/09/15 11:24, Lester Caine wrote:
> On 14/09/15 11:11, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> Broxbourne, Wormley and Turnford don't really have significant centres
>> and historically would likely have been considered villages. Broxbourne
>> is now a town in wikipedia with a population of over 13 thousand while
>> the other two are still listed as villages with a combined population of
>> around 8 thousand. Much of that is 20th century dormitory for London though.
>
> Again on IOP
> 'Broxbourne and Hoddesdon South' gets a population figure of 9065 and
> I'm seeing three other Hoddesdon entries, but the whole area is covered
> by 'Broxbourne' in that data ... rather than Hoddesdon.

Yes because they're all in the Borough of Broxbourne which is the 
district council area formed by merging the Cheshunt and Hoddesdon Urban 
Districts in the 1974 reorg.

Tom

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