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