wens a village not a village ??

[felixthelogchopper]

I agree, retail outlets are subject to market forces and are far too transient to be any sort of bench mark. The only quantifiable way to categorise would be by population.

 

I don’t know if there is an official definition of what makes a village.

 

Number of people per capita who marry their cousins?

[treequip]

Number of people per capita who marry their cousins?

 

If you kick one of them in the leg they all limp?

[blazer]

According to my Dad yrs ago, brackets my additions

 

Hamlet - small village but no church

 

village - has it's own church - parish boundry etc. (+ parish council that can put up notices to stop ball games).

 

town - has a town hall. (not sure about a market place, some large villages have market places)

 

city - cathedral. (drop out centre)

 

So you can have St Davids the size of many villages is a city, many of the large villages with massive wool churches around here are still villages.

 

Alot changed with the decline of the wool trade and the railways towns that grew in Victorian times.

 

 

Hope that doesn't spoil the fun - enjoyed reading the other posts:thumbup1:

 

For me a village must have it's old group of 'swingers'

Edited February 10, 2012 by blazer

[alex_m]

city has a cathedral .

 

we have a cathedral and still a town! (only one in the uk...)

[pleasant]

Originally, it used to be that a hamlet was an area of population that had no church. A village was effectively a hamlet that had a church. A town was a village that the reigning monarch decreed could hold a market. A city had to have a cathedral, but that no longer applies, since towns can now simply apply for city status. Only the monarch can change the status of a town to a city- hence the short-list of towns that have applied for city status in this jubilee year.

[Pete Tattam]

I've been speaking to an old boy near me who reckons that a village has a bus stop, a town has a railway station and a city has several railway stations. Mind you he's old enough to remember the pre-Beeching days!!!!

 

What does having an airport make?

[Stereo]

Hamlet has a cat. Village has a WI. Town has an off licence. City has a Starbucks.

[WorcsWuss]

Hamlet had a skull

Village had a People

Town has a Wetherspoons

City has a race relations problem...

[skyhuck]

we have a cathedral and still a town! (only one in the uk...)

 

Not true, Blackburn has a cathedral and is only a town.

[Notmegov]

A town has a town Charter, that why Bishops castle population of only 1800 or so is a town and not a Village.