Older division of populated country-side areas in Scandinavia, civil parish, administrative parish, country-side municipality.
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Examples for "parish of the church of sweden"
Examples for "parish of the church of sweden"
1The principal division of the county was the civil parish, usually but not always identical with the ecclesiastical parish.
2There was no civil parish of Bridgend previous to 1905, when one was formed out of portions of the parishes of Newcastle and Coity.
3Buxton (Bawdestanes, Bue-stanes), formed into a civil parish from Bakewell in 1895, has thus claims to be considered one of the oldest English spas.
4The Kilrush Poor Law Union comprised 13 electoral divisions, apparently coinciding with the 13 civil parishes of the Loop Head peninsula in west Clare.