The central village, Loriga, is seven kilometres from Torre ( the highest point ), but the parish is sculpted by cliffs, alluvial plains and glacial lakes deposited during millennia of glacial erosion, and surrounded by rare ancient forest that surrounded the lateral flanks of these glaciers.

A burn ( stream ), a tributary of the River Spey, and surrounding parish, are both named Aberlour, but the name is most commonly used in reference to the village which straddles the stream and flanks the Spey – although the full name of the village is Charlestown of Aberlour.

The settlement of the western portion of the island, that includes the parish of Serreta, began at the end of the 15th century, when uncultivated lands along the flanks of the Santa Bárbara massif were distributed by João Vaz Corte-Real, then Captain-donatário in Angra.

It formed an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, becoming a municipal borough in 1933, and has formed part of Greater London since 1965.

Harmondsworth civil parish was transferred to the London Borough of Hillingdon, in Greater London.

As befits the size and architectural importance, not to mention the massive running costs of such a building, St Botolph's is a member of the Anglican Greater Churches Group, established for the small number of parish churches that have cathedral-like proportions without the title to match.

The parish of Quinton became part of Birmingham on 9 November 1909 and two years later, under what was termed ' The Greater Birmingham Scheme ', the Boroughs of Aston Manor, the Urban Districts of Handsworth and Erdington, part of the Urban District of Kings Norton and Northfield and the Rural District of Yardley were all incorporated.

In 1965 the parish and municipal borough were abolished by the London Government Act 1963 and the area transferred to Greater London, to form part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

There are currently no parish councils in Greater London and before 2008 their creation was not permitted within a London borough.

* Shaw and Crompton, a town and civil parish in Greater Manchester

The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene dates to the first half of the 12th century and is claimed to be the oldest parish church still in use in Greater London.

What remained from that time is SS Peter's and Paul's parish church with magnificent carved portal and the solar clock on the south wall-probably the oldest solar clock in Greater Poland.

Mossley is a small town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England.

In 1965 the parish and urban district were abolished and the settlements split again so Chislehurst became part of the London Borough of Bromley while Sidcup and North Cray formed part of the London Borough of Bexley in Greater London.

Saddleworth is a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.

In 1965 civil parishes in London were formally abolished when Greater London was created, as the legislative framework for Greater London did not make provision for any local government body below a London borough ( since all of London was previously part of a metropolitan borough, municipal borough or urban district, no actual parish councils were abolished ).

It is located in the Estoril Coast ( named after Estoril, a civil parish ), in the Greater Lisbon subregion.

Westhoughton () is a town and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, Westhoughton Urban District was abolished in 1974 and its area became a civil parish of the newly created Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester.

Greenfield is a village in the Saddleworth parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.

* Alt, Greater Manchester, formerly a constituent parish of Limehurst Rural District, near Oldham, England

Under the Local Government Act 1972, the City of Manchester, with the addition of the civil parish of Ringway, became on 1 April 1974 one of the ten Metropolitan Boroughs of the newly created Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester.

In 1965 the Ilford parish and municipal borough were abolished by the London Government Act 1963, and the area of Essex including Seven Kings has since formed part of Greater London.

Although many records ( in particular the parish registers of Greater London ) are stored on microfiche, there is a digitisation programme which is ongoing.

Horwich () is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England.

Under the Local Government Act 1972 Horwich Urban District was abolished in 1974 and its area became a successor parish of the newly created Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester.

The parish register of St. Mary's Newington, London, shows that Babbage was baptised on 6 January 1792, supporting a birth year of 1791.

Daniel Foe ( his original name ) was probably born in the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, London.

Yale died on July 8, 1721 in London, England, but was buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Giles in Wrexham, Wales.

The dock areas outside of London and the parish of St Giles in the Fields, where poor workers crowded into ill-kept structures, were the first areas struck by the plague.

It depicts the six corporate acts of mercy — feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting prisoners and the sick, and the inscription reads: " This window is sacred to the memory of Mary Anning of this parish, who died 9 March AD 1847 and is erected by the vicar and some members of the Geological Society of London in commemoration of her usefulness in furthering the science of geology, as also of her benevolence of heart and integrity of life.

** Hackney ( parish ), the ancient church parish, part of the modern London borough

He was born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in 1670, and in 1695 became the leading bass singer in the company with which Henry Purcell worked, playing roles such as the magician Ismeron in The Indian Queen, where he sang the major aria " Ye twice ten hundred deities ".

* Saint John Fisher parish, Kidbrooke, London

The Local Government Act 1972 abolished all existing local authorities outside London ( other than parish councils ) in England and Wales.

White is known to have attended church in the parish of St. Martin Ludgate in London.

After the United Free Church of Scotland joined in 1929 with the Church of Scotland, Buchan remained an active elder of St. Columba's Church in London, as well as of the Oxford Presbyterian parish.

Following population increases caused by the expansion of London during the 18th century, it was split off as the parish of Bethnal Green in 1743, becoming part of the Metropolis in 1855 and the County of London in 1889.

Historically a rural Essex parish, it gained Urban District status in 1894, and between 1938 and 1965 formed the core of the Municipal Borough of Chingford, Chingford now forms part of the north-east London Borough of Waltham Forest.

In 1965, the old Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth was divided and almost all of the historic parish of Clapham was transferred to the London Borough of Lambeth.

Its historical borders are Kingsland Road and Kingsland High Street in the west, London Fields in the east, Downs Park Road in the north and the Shoreditch parish boundary in the south.

Administratively, Goodmayes has always been a part of Ilford, and its political history has followed that of its parent from being part of a ward of Barking parish to the London Borough of Redbridge today.

Whilst Hornsey was formerly the name of a much larger parish and later a municipal borough of Middlesex, today, the name usually refers only to the London district.

The origin of the name " Notting Hill " is uncertain though an early version appears in the Patent Rolls of 1356 as Knottynghull, while an 1878 text, Old and New London, reports that the name derives from a manor in Kensington called " Knotting-Bernes ,", " Knutting-Barnes ," or " Nutting-barns ", and goes on to quote from a court record during Henry VIII's reign that " the manor called Notingbarons, alias Kensington, in the parish of Paddington, was held of the Abbot of Westminster.

Peckham has never been an administrative district, or a single ecclesiastical parish in its own right, but it developed a strong sense of identity in the 19th century when Rye Lane was one of the most important shopping streets in South London.

In 1895 he was created a baronet " of Wildcroft, in the parish of Putney, in the county of London.