Civil parishes cover 35% of England's population, with one in Greater London and very few in the other conurbations. Civil parishes vary greatly in size: many cover tiny hamlets with populations of less than 100, whereas some large parishes cover towns with populations of tens of thousands. Weston-super-Mare, with a population of 71,758, is the most populous civil parish.

Civil may refer to: . Civic virtue, or civility; Civil action, or lawsuit; Civil affairs; Civil and political rights; Civil disobedience; Civil engineering; Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism Civilian, someone not a member of armed forces; Civil law (disambiguation), multiple meanings Civil liberties

Parish councils are civil local authorities found in England which are the lowest tier of local government. They are elected corporate bodies, with variable tax raising powers, and they carry out beneficial public activities in geographical areas known as civil parishes.There are about 9,000 parish and town councils in England, and over 16 million people live in communities …

Economic union, a type of trade bloc; Political union, a type of state which is composed of or created out of smaller states; Personal union, the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch; Poor law union, a former unit of local government in the United Kingdom; Real union, a union of two or more states, which share some state institutions

A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese.A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church.Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor.

The Irish Republican Army of 1922–1969, an anti-Treaty sub-group of the original Irish Republican Army (1919-1922), fought against the Irish Free State in the Irish Civil War, and its successors up to 1969, when the IRA split again into the Provisional IRA and Official IRA.The original Irish Republican Army fought a guerrilla war against British rule in Ireland in the Irish War of ...

Pontefract is a historic market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the towns in the City of Wakefield District and had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census. Pontefract's motto is Post mortem patris pro filio, Latin for "After the death …

Imber is an uninhabited village within the British Army's training area on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England.It lies in an isolated area of the Plain, about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) west of the A360 road between Tilshead and West Lavington.A linear village, its main street follows the course of a stream.. Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, Imber was always an isolated community, …

Etymology. The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *ner-, meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word borealis comes from the Greek boreas "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was …

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, …