Calverton is a civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes ( ceremonial Buckinghamshire ), England and just outside Milton Keynes itself.

The west side of nearby Stony Stratford was once included with the ecclesiastic parish of Calverton ( the east side being in Wolverton ).

Upper Weald, Middle Weald and Lower Weald are three hamlets in the parish of Calverton in the Borough of Milton Keynes, England.

The parish is bounded to the north-east by V4 Watling Street, to the north-west by the border with Calverton parish, to the south-west by the borough boundary with Aylesbury Vale ( at Whaddon ) and to the south-east by H6 Childs Way.

Wolverton formed a civil parish within the Stratford and Wolverton Rural District from 1894 to 1919, which also contained the parishes of Calverton, Stony Stratford East and Stony Stratford West.

Calverton is a Nottinghamshire parish, of some, about seven miles north-east of Nottingham, situated, like nearby Woodborough, and Lambley, on a small tributary of the Dover Beck.

Seventy-five names are listed in the Calverton parish returns, with the note ‘ none refused ’.

An Act for dividing and inclosing the open fields, meadows, pastures, commons, forest and waste grounds in the parish of Calverton in the County of Nottingham was passed by Parliament in May 1779.

Because about 2, 334 acres of Calverton had been enclosed in such a short time, it seems very likely that much of the detail mentioned in the award had already been agreed by the principal owners, and the work of the commissioners will have been to satisfy the claims of those villagers who perhaps owned no land at all, but did have common rights around the parish.

I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.

The medieval parish church of Gunsbach was shared by the Protestant and Catholic congregations, which held their prayers in different areas at different times on Sundays.

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

The area was part of the ancient Monmouthshire parish of Mynyddislwyn until the late 19th century.

In the early years of Aberdare's development, most of the coal worked in the parish was coking coal, and was consumed locally, chiefly in the ironworks.

Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.

The nearby St John the Baptist Church of the same parish was originally built in the 13th century, with some of the original architecture still intact.

It was after this, while Kirk was minister of Aberfoyle parish, that he died in unusual circumstances.

The area was anciently part of the parish of Trevethin, in Monmouthshire.

However, there was still £ 13, 000 to pay on a mortgage, a fairly large amount of money in the 1880s, and Henry was at the time still only a mere parish priest.

* The parish church was originally built in the Middle Ages, but was destroyed in the fire of 1628.

The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.

Bolventor parish was established in 1846 ( before that date the village was in St Neot parish ) but has now been merged with Altarnun.

There was widespread opposition to the introduction of regular congregational Communion, partly because the extra costs of bread and wine that would fall on the parish ; but mainly out of an intense resistance to undertaking in regular worship, a religious practice previously associated with marriage or illness.

George Herbert was however, not alone in his enthusiasm for preaching which he regarded as one of the prime functions of a parish priest.

The island of Inchcolm, or Island ( Gaelic innis ) of Columba, a quarter of a mile from the shore, forms part of the parish of Aberdour.

The parish was part of the Winterstoke Hundred.

On 17 December 1790 he created the Assistant Parish of Tuineje, which became a new parish division on 23 June 1792 under the bishop Tavira with lands including part of the Jandía peninsular with a population of 1, 670 inhabitants.

The sanitary districts and parish councils had legal status, but were not part of the mechanism of government.

The main unit of local government was the parish, and since it was also part of the church, the elders imposed public humiliation for what the locals considered immoral behaviour, including fornication, drunkenness, wife beating, cursing and Sabbath breaking.

The first part of the name is the name of the patron saint of the parish church, and the second part of the name is the traditional common name of the parish.

The religious part of a parish name is sometimes written or pronounced in the possessive: Saint George's Gingerland.

Newton's apparent influence and charisma proved beneficial to him and his parish when local Evangelical merchant, John Thornton, to whom he had sent a copy of his autobiography, offered the parish £ 200 per year, requesting that Newton, in part, provided for the poor.

Mutley was originally the name of two parishes to the west of this road in the valley of the Houndiscombe Brook, the land to the east being part of the parish of Lipson.

The will of a William Latewise who died in 1603 in Goosnargh – part of the parish of Kirkham – which states he was " of Culcheth in the parish of Winwick ".

In the United States, the Unitarian movement began primarily in the Congregational parish churches of New England, which were part of the state church of Massachusetts.

Historically part of the parish of St Margaret in the county of Middlesex, the name Westminster was the ancient description for the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the government of England ( and later the British government ) for almost a thousand years.

Meanwhile the southern part of what became the parish of St. Anne, Soho, was sold by the Crown in parcels in the 16th and 17th centuries, with part going to Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester.

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

Besides these buildings which were part of the official structures of the bishopric ; an additional four parish churches were constructed in the city: the Jacobikerk ( dedicated to Saint James ), founded in the 11th century, with the current Gothic church dating back to the 14th century ; the Buurkerk ( Neighbourhood-church ) of the 11th century parish in the centre of the city ; Nicolaichurch ( dedicated to Saint Nicholas ), from the 12th century and the 13th century Geertekerk ( dedicated to Saint Gertrude of Nivelles ).

" Oxfordians also consider it significant that the nearest town to the parish of Hackney, where de Vere later lived and was buried, was also named Stratford.

Stratford-upon-Avon (, known locally as Stratford ) is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England.

The settlement to the east of the Lea was also known as Estratford referring to the location east of the other Stratford, Statford Hamme alluding to the location within the parish of West Ham, Abbei Stratford, referring to the presence of Stratford Langthorne Abbey and Stretford Langthorne.

Stratford was one of three ancient wards in the large parish of West Ham, in the Becontree hundred of Essex.

It was built as a chapel of ease to save worshippers the journey to the ancient parish church of All Saint's West Ham ; St John's Stratford became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1844.

Stoke Hammond is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Valedistrict in north Buckinghamshire, England, about two and a half miles south of Fenny Stratford ( Milton Keynes ).

On St Martin's Day 1724 the first stone was laid of the new parish church of Fenny Stratford, marking a fresh start in the town's history.

In 1927, the parish included part of Fenny Stratford, but no longer does so.

Stony Stratford ( often shortened to Stony ) is a constituent town of Milton Keynes ( in north Buckinghamshire, England ) and is a civil parish with a town council within the Borough of Milton Keynes.

In modern times, the ecclesiastical parish of Stony Stratford was merged with another parish, Stony Stratford St Mary the Virgin ( prior to 1953 known as Wolverton St Mary ), in 1968, to create the parish of Stony Stratford St Mary and St Giles.

* The Stony Stratford Hoard ( actually found in Old Stratford parish ).