At its most rural, the parish's many villages ( such as the seafront " Fitts Village ") are abuzz with activity, near-familial camaraderie, and an active social atmosphere.

The parish's main Gaelic football pitch and two secondary schools are on the mainland at Poll Raithní.

Parts of the " plantations and pleasure grounds of Belvoir Castle ... are in this parish "; Belvoir castle was supplied with water from the parish's Holywell spring.

Many residents of the hamlet are equally confused by their parish's whereabouts, most have chosen to worship and be buried at Mentmore, the village most socially connected to Crafton.

Veryan attracts tourism due to its location on the Roseland Peninsula and has bed and breakfasts, hotels and guest houses. The round houses are also a factor in the parish's tourism interest and are rented out for accommodation.

Inscriptions on the church's stained glass windows and on the older headstones in its adjoining cemetery are in German, reflecting the culture of the parish's founding members.

The parish is adjacent to the village of Maiden Newton, with which the parish's hamlets are virtually contiguous.

The parish's principal activities are farming and animal husbandry ( dairy and cattle ranching primarily ), focusing on dairy production, as well as subsistence fishing and a small commercial nucleus.

But, it is unclear the origin of the parish's name ; there are various hypothesises.

Mavado, Sean Paul, Buju Banton, Elephant Man, The Mighty Diamonds, Monty Alexander, Beres Hammond, Lady Saw, Sugar Minott, Bounty Killer, Mr. Vegas, Richie Spice are some of the parish's current residents The area of Trench Town was made famous because of its rise of people like The Wailers ( Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh and Bob Marley ), and Toots Hibbert who gave credence to the birth of reggae music.

Scoil Eoin in the village of Innishannon itself, Knockavilla, Cork to the north of the parish opposite St. Patrick's Church-the second church of the parish, Gurrane National School ( sometimes called Gurranes ) near Crossbarry, and Castleack National School near the parish's boundary with Bandon.

The parish's offer forest-draped mountains in the northern interior, with the more scrub-like covered Canada Hills near the southern interior borders.

The parish's consists of forest-covered rugged hills and mountains in the North west and interior, climaxing at the near Olivee's Mountain.

The parish's northern border follows the western railway until slightly after it crosses the E. N. 125 motorway ; its eastern frontier follows the Ribeiro do Lacém to the coast ; the western border also follows a tributary, the Ribeira do Almargem ; while the parish fronts the Atlantic Ocean by way of its island ().

In some Christian denominations, for example, the Anglican Communion, parish churches may maintain a chair for the use of the bishop when he visits ; this is to signify the parish's union with the bishop.

As of 2006, with the replacement of the parish priest Father Michael Tuck, for the first time in the parish's history, females may be chosen to be altar-servers.

A major event in the parish's transition from a bedroom community of commuters to a more diverse and independent economic unit occurred in 2008 with the relocation of Chevron's regional corporate headquarters from downtown New Orleans to an office park outside of Covington.

The parish's population doubled in size from 1940 to 1950 and again from 1950 to 1960 as the parents behind the post – World War II baby boom, profiting from rising living standards and dissatisfied with their old neighborhoods, chose relocation to new neighborhoods of detached single-family housing.

The local man chosen to carry the parish's request to Hartford had a somewhat eccentric manner of dress, however, and when he appeared before the Legislature he was dressed in loud, parti-colored homespun so odd as to bring to the mind of one amused legislator the query of Isaiah: 63, I: " Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?

Stoke Mandeville Hospital, although named after the village, is located on the parish's border with Aylesbury and has the largest spinal injuries ward in Europe.

Later St. James the Great became the parish's principal church, with Castlethorpe as its dependent chapel.

Its southern boundary is a brook called the Birne, and this and the parish's western boundary form part of the county boundary with Oxfordshire.

In 1894 the parish's boundaries were altered somewhat, with the parts in Quickmere Middle Division ( Springhead ), Mossley and Uppermill becoming Urban Districts.

In 1883, some land for the new workhouse on Buckingham Palace Road was bought from the new Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, thricely-great-grand-nephew of the Baronet who originally sold the site of the burial ground, and paupers were transferred both to there and the parish's other workhouse at Little Chelsea on the Fulham Road, with the workhouse finally being demolished in 1886 and converted into more parish offices.

The Kennet and Avon Canal forms part of the parish's boundaries with Woolhampton and Padworth.

Due to the parish's location within the Kennet Valley there is a high concentration of alluvium, with the content largely determined by the London Clay Formation, the Bagshot Formation, and the Bracklesham Beds.

In 1944, Bishop S. Arthur Huston reopened discussions with the parish's bankers in St. Louis, Missouri ; over the next three years, more funds were raised, and in 1947 the mortgage was paid off.

* Late 1990s: In conjunction with the parish's building campaign, a plan was set out with Foley-Baker, Inc., for the cleaning and refurbishment of both organs and their joint console.

The parish's experience with cooperativism started on April 4, 1919, with the establishment of the Fructuária de Produção de Lacticínios da Freguesia do Senhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres da Fazenda, later renamed the Cooperativa Agrícola Fructuária de ProduçãO de Lacticínios Senhor Santo Cristo by its founder, Father José Furtado Mota.

Essentially, the parish's economy is driven by primary resource production that includes fishing and agriculture, with secondary industries associated with these sectors, including civil construction, fish-processing and some milk-processing facilities.

Also, the porto is a site of a ravine and hill that links Paul do Mar with Prazeres, and was once the parish's few land accesses to the rest of the island.

The parishioners wanted to replace the community house and open terrace with a speculative high-rise commercial structure that would re-capitalize the parish's depleted funds ; following a series of public hearing the Landmarks Preservation Commission turned down the plans for a fifty-nine story office building The case, St. Bartholomew's vs New York Landmarks Preservation Commission ( 1990 ), raised as a constitutional issue the question whether churches and religious buildings should be exempt from historic ordinances.

The parish's terrain is relatively flat.

The parish's offer the most diverse terrain to be found in a single parish in the country.

From this developed coastline, which consists almost entirely of the Charlestown port, the parish's boundaries move inland, over gently sloping terrain, until the base of Nevis Peak is reached.

The Commission de toponymie asserts that the parish's name refers to nearby Lake Témiscouata, the sense of haha here being an archaic French word for an unexpected obstacle or abruptly ending path, see ha-ha.

This parish's Church, has a square tower which was supposed to have a spire on top this was not built however as the ground being undermined by the coal pits in the area it was feared that the weight would cause collapse both to the mine and to the tower itself.

That left Baldwin's Store to continue initially housing many of the parish's public offices and later, the Methodist and Baptist Churches would be used for parish offices.

Hanslope is conveniently close to quarries for Great Oolite limestone, which has been used in the parish's traditional vernacular architecture.

The parish's other burial ground, on Bayswater Road, closed shortly afterwards, and the Hanwell Cemetery in west London was used instead.

Convoluted in its history was the region's taxonomic name ; Ericeira originated from Ouriceira, itself a derivative of Ouriço, referring to the name for sea urchins ( used in parish's coat-of-arms ).

It has been used for the parish's schools ; as a verger's residence ; and as a shelter for service men in war time.