Fair enough - so it's just a matter of semantics. I wasn't really thinking of 'urban villages' but, to be fair, each of the groups/estates of dwellings in the nearest 'city' (not literally true) to me (Milton Keynes, only around 60 years old) are officially called "villages" ....
I don't think that works, at least in terms of 'common usage'. My village does have a church, but it is the "Parish Church" which serves around half a dozen other nearby 'villages' (within the same Parish), which everyone calls 'villages', despite their having no church of their own.
Yes, that, together with population, is what I meant by "true village". As you imply, if one goes back far enough in time, such 'villages' were all we had, but when they expanded and merged with neighbouring ones, they generally came to be described as 'towns'. However, again, I have tio admit that circumscribed areas (particularly residential areas) within towns are often still described as 'villages' - albeit 'villages within towns', rather than 'standalone villages. In any event, I don't think that there is any doubt that the 'villages' in the area in which I live qualify as "true villages" per your suggested definition. This shows about a dozen 'villages' (including mine!), all well separated from one another by fields ...
I would call any community which had 6 banks a 'town', as probably I would for any community of that size (over 17,000 in 2011 Census).
A pretty common story, I imagine. However, in my area, the majority of the houses are at least ~100 years ago. In some of the villages (including mine) there was a bit of a flurry of building (primarily of 'Council Houses') in the 1960s but, beyond that, new houses have appeared only very sporadically. The planners around here are very strict these days, and will not tolerate any extension of the boundaries of built-up areas in rural villages - i.e. they will allow 'infill' building, but not anything that goes beyond the present boundaries of the built-up area - there has certainly been no such 'expansion of built-up areas' in the 35 years we've been here, and seeming not for decades prior to that. It therefore seems that there is very little risk of any of the local villages 'merging' any time soon(if ever)!
I thought of asking them the same but, judging by previous experience, they might well move it to GD ... in which case you would not be getting any responses from me
Thanks.a mod said:
Exactly - hence my commenta mod said:
SS, I had no idea you were local! We live in Gatley. There is a church but not a single bank now, though there are a couple in nearby Cheadle.
That's nice to know, thank you. No I must have forgotten.
I'd certainly be confident in you doing any work we should need doing and I know it would be done properly.
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