[Talk-GB] Wickham Market, Suffolk
Mark Goodge
mark at good-stuff.co.uk
Fri Sep 7 13:58:43 UTC 2018
On 07/09/2018 12:51, Chris Hill wrote:
> One place to look is OS Open Names. That has place names listed with a
> category of populated place that seems to be hamlet, village, town or
> suburban area. That lists Wickham Market as a town.
That seems to be going solely by size, and is used to indicate how the
name is displayed on OS maps. I'm not sure it's necessarily valuable in
other contexts.
> Wikipedia, on the other hand, says it is a large village.
>
> The parish council website sits on the fence and calls it a 'thriving
> community'.
It has a dropdown link for "Our Village" at the top. But, interestingly,
that gives some of the history which indicates that it was once
considered a town - it had a charter market, and two charter fairs, but
these have since lapsed. So that may be the root cause of the
disagreement in this case - there may be people who think that the past
is more important than the current situation (see also, historic counties!).
Legally, it's definitely not a town as it has a parish council, not a
town council.
> I'd plump for townage or maybe villown.
Or, maybe, just "place" :-)
Mark
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