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This is a list of civil parishes in England split by ceremonial county (see map below). The civil parish is the lowest level of local government in England.
Lists of churches in England include lists of notable current or former church buildings, territories, places of worship, or congregations, and may be discriminated by various criteria, including affiliation, location, or architectural characteristics.
A list of Catholic churches in the United Kingdom, notable current and former individual church buildings and congregations and administration. These churches are listed buildings or have been recognised for their historical importance, or are church congregations notable for reasons unrelated to their buildings.
This is a list of former monastic buildings in England that continue in use as parish churches or chapels of ease.. Bath Abbey. Nearly a thousand religious houses (abbeys, priories and friaries) were founded in England and Wales during the medieval period, accommodating monks, friars or nuns who had taken vows of obedience, poverty and chastity; each house was led by an abbot or abbess, or by ...
As the administration of the poor laws was the main civil function of parishes, the Poor Law Amendment Act 1866, which received royal assent on 10 August 1866, declared all areas that levied a separate rate or had their own overseer of the poor to be parishes. This included the Church of England parishes (until then simply known as "parishes ...
The parish with its parish church(es) is the basic territorial unit of the Church of England. The parish has its roots in the Roman Catholic Church and survived the English Reformation largely untouched. Each is within one of 42 dioceses: [1] divided between the thirty of the Province of Canterbury and the twelve of that of York. There are ...
former Church of England parish church of All Souls 52°37′22″N 1°08′08″W / 52.622668°N 1.135446°W / 52.622668; -1.135446 ( Leicester Greek Orthodox Cathedral Camden Town Cathedral
Blank map of civil parish boundaries in Devon. This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. There are 426 civil parishes. East Devon ...