Talk:Township (England)

I would completely disagree with the statement that In England, the township has long been obsolute! It is still very much used in Lancashire (for example, see here); and in Yorkshire, to name but two counties. There may be others. The main page about townships doesn't mention Ireland either! Peter Shearan 13:51, 26 August 2005 (UTC)


 * You may notice that that is a historical gazetteer. It also lists rural districts and urban districts, which are also obselete. I've found current usage of the term in Wigan, Rochdale and Wirral, and have added this to the page.  I couldn't find any usage of the term in Yorkshire - Doncaster Borough Council do mention them on website but only in a historical concept.  Morwen - Talk 12:48, 12 October 2005 (UTC)


 * The Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham currently uses the term (go here and search the site for "township", for example.) I intend to re-write this article, as I think it does not describe the ancient or modern uses of the term in enough detail, or even, perhaps, accurately at times.  DDStretch    (talk)  03:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

ship = cheap
Is this really right? My old OED gives a differnet derivation of '-ship' in lordship, and I would have thought this applied to township. Comments would be appreciated before I seek to alter this. Peterkingiron 16:06, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Frankly, the last paragraph to me reads as a confusion for "towns".


 * oed.com gives (I presume) the same definition for -ship as your's:


 * 2. Added to nouns to denote the state or condition of being what is expressed by the noun...


 * 5. Added to nouns forming compounds having a collective sense. These were numerous in OE., e.g. bur{asg}scipe municipality, folcscipe nation, {asg}ieldscipe guild, {th}e{asg}nscipe body of retainers, {th}éodscipe people, wæterscipe piece of water. TOWNSHIP (OE. túnscipe the inhabitants of a tún) is the one survival from the OE. period. --Alex Craven 00:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Parish line
There seems to be something wrong with the list of counties, which was brought into the article by this version. The latest edit has sought to rectify this, but probably does not help. I would have thought the last county named should be "Nottinghamshire", not "Yorkshire North" or "northern Yorkshire", but I do not have the book cited and cannot thus determine what has gone wrong. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:04, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

confusing sentence in History section
"There or elsewhere, occasionally, different parts of a parish were in different hundreds or counties." Can someone explain what "there or elsewhere, occasionally" is supposed to mean Richerman (talk) 23:24, 13 May 2011 (UTC)