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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.
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 ...
This is a list of the most populous civil parishes in England. [1] It includes all civil parishes with populations over 30,000, representing less than 1% of all civil parishes but almost 3% of the population. Lichfield, Hereford and Salisbury are in addition to being some of the most populous civil parishes in England, among the smallest cities.
A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes called the ecclesiastical parish, to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and ...
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.
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
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 ...