Talk:Parish council

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Needs to move to correct capitalization and be less us-centric

[edit] Parish and civil parish

I see a need to recognise that the distinction between parish and civil parish is at best very blurry, especially in historical contexts. In England and the UK its a fairly late development in administrative systems. Laurel Bush 15:03, 16 January 2006 (UTC).

Surely a parish is an ecclesiastical geographical designation?David Lauder 10:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

You'd think so, but such is the wierd fudge that is British local government organisation. --Joopercoopers 09:13, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

The article Civil parish duplicates this one and gives far more detail. They should be amalgamated.Hymers2 (talk) 20:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

In England a parish council is part of the civil government and is also known unofficially as a civil parish. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Church of England, where the governing body of each ecclesiastical parish (which often has different boundaries from the civil parish)is the Parochial Church Council. Hymers2 (talk) 08:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)