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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.
Chester Castle was an enclave of the county of Cheshire within the city of Chester, which in turn was historically a county corporate and so an enclave within Cheshire. [43] It comprised Chester Castle and some adjoining territory. The situation remained until 1974, the city having become a county borough in 1888.
This is a list of towns in England.. Historically, towns were any settlement with a charter, including market towns and ancient boroughs.The process of incorporation was reformed in 1835 and many more places received borough charters, whilst others were lost.
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.
This is a list of lists of cities in Europe. Lists of countries includes countries that fall to at least some extent within European geographical boundaries according to certain definitions. Lists of countries includes countries that fall to at least some extent within European geographical boundaries according to certain definitions.
In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a town traditionally was a settlement which had a charter to hold a market or fair and therefore became a "market town". In Scotland , the equivalent is known as a burgh .
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.