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Parish Exclave location Area (hectares) Barnby Moor: Bilby: 278.97 Wallingwells: Nondescript: 9.60 Warbstow: Canworthy Water: 188.53 Weston Sub Edge: Separated from main body by Aston-Sub-Edge
In political geography, an enclave is a piece of land belonging to one country (or region etc.) that is totally surrounded by another country (or region). An exclave is a piece of land that is politically attached to a larger piece but not physically contiguous with it (connected to it) because they are completely separated by a surrounding foreign territory or territories.
The town of Dudley survived as an exclave of 3,548 acres (1,436 hectares) [134] until 1966 (augmented 1926), because it was the biggest town in the county and had a greater population than Worcester. It excluded Dudley Castle (see Staffordshire, above) but had a satellite exclave as a strip of woodland on the west side of Dudley Castle Hill ...
List of places in England; Mill towns in the United Kingdom; List of cities in the United Kingdom; List of post towns in the United Kingdom; List of United Kingdom locations; Category:Towns in England by county; Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), settlement areas in the pre-1974 reform governance structure which had town-equivalent ...
The first diplomatic document to contain the word enclave was the Treaty of Madrid, signed in 1526. [2]: 61 Later, the term enclave began to be used also to refer to parcels of countries, counties, fiefs, communes, towns, parishes, etc. that were surrounded by alien territory.
The Local Government Act 1972 allows civil parishes in England and Wales to resolve themselves to be Town Councils, under section (245 subsection 6), which also gives the chairman of such parishes the title 'town mayor'. Many former urban districts and municipal boroughs have such a status, along with other settlements with no prior town status.
This is a list of the largest cities and towns of England ordered by population at various points during history. Until the first modern census was conducted in 1801 there was no centrally conducted method of determining the populations of England's settlements at any one time, and so data has to be used from a number of other historical surveys.
The earliest cities (Latin: civitas) in Britain were the fortified settlements organised by the Romans as capitals of the Celtic tribes under Roman rule.The British clerics of the early Middle Ages later preserved a traditional list of the "28 Cities" (Old Welsh: cair) which was mentioned in De Excidio Britanniae [c] and Historia Brittonum.