Talk:Thetford, Cambridgeshire

Improvement
Civil parishes are notable. I will be improving this page to get it at least to start standard. Wilbysuffolk   Talk to me  20:45, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Parameter INFOBOX-->civil_parish
Archived from Wikipedia_talk:UK_Wikipedians'_notice_board 11/6/2010 --Senra (talk) 11:19, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Little Thetford is a parish in the ward of Stretham. That being said, I suspect that the parameter infobox-->civil_parish should not be present for this village. Could that be confirmed please?--Senra(talk) 22:05, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Looking at the map it is in the civil parish of Thetford not in Stretham. The link for the article would be Thetford, Cambridgeshire to match the one in the civil parish list but as yet does not exist. Keith D (talk) 22:29, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Civil_parish parameter now commented out I like the idea of an article with that title as it clears up some confusion. The administrative records talk about Thetford not Little Thetford. However, the place-name is most definitely Little Thetford. I am too new to wikipedia to be creating new pages so I will leave this for now. The page Thetford, Cambridgeshire would not contain anything other than a link to Little Thetford anyway or perhaps it should be disambiguation? Anyhow, too complex for me --Senra (talk) 23:34, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It should be remembered that there are two kinds of parish - civil (local government) and ecclesiastical (church), and their boundaries and names need not match. As the parameter name implies, civil_parish is for the local government type. Most English villages are within a civil parish; many also give their names to the parish. A good source is a current Ordnance Survey map of 1:25 000 scale (Explorer series, orange cover) or larger; the 1:50 000 (Landranger series, pink cover) don't have this information. In the infobox of the Little Thetford page there is an entry "OS grid reference "; click on the reference itself, and when you get to the GeoHack page (which might take more than one try), click on the "OS maps" link in the "Ordnance Survey Get-a-map" row on the right-hand side. This takes you here, which is a 1:25 000 map. Here, the civil parish boundaries are shown by lines of small dots, dark grey-brown (almost black) in colour. The parish names are shown in capitals; in this case the words "THETFORD CP" occur just below the village concerned. The page Thetford, Cambridgeshire need not be a disambiguation: it could be a short summary of which villages are within the parish, see for example Barford St. John and St. Michael. -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:00, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The page Thetford, Cambridgeshire has been created and the civil_parish parameter reinstated. Part of my reluctance, described above, is my fear of messing up wikipedia. Your input is really appreciated. Most helpful. --Senra (talk) 11:19, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

--Senra (talk) 11:19, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I've added the page to Category:Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire; it's a general principle that every article should be in at least one category (see WP:CAT, para. 3), and I think that this was the most suitable. -- Red rose64 (talk) 11:39, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Oops. Sorry. Still learning. Thank you for correcting me. --Senra (talk) 12:34, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Fixed archive link at top of page but not sure if it breaks anyway when the wikipedians notice board gets archived. --Senra (talk) 04:41, 12 June 2010 (UTC)