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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. JUNE 3, ww.

PARISHES IN TWO COUNTIES.

(11 S. ix. 29, 75, 132, 210, 273, 317, 374; xi. 421.)

HAVING recently become possessed of a copy of ' The Population Gazetteer of England and Wales' for 1861, by C. H. Coke, I find that the returns of parishes then in two counties are given. From this table I have compiled a list of all such parishes existing previous to the Registration Act of 1836. In the book is the following note : " When the same word occurs as the principal name of places in different counties, the alpha- betical order of the county settles the priority of insertion, and in all such cases a departure from a strict alphabetical arrangement has been deemed allowable."

This arrangement is also here followed, for I notice that, so far as parishes are con- cerned, the usual rule is to place the county which contains the larger population of a parish first in order. After examining some old county maps I have marked with an asterisk * the county in which the principal village, township, or hamlet, including the parish church, was situated. Where a town or village appears to extend into both counties, or the church and village are in different counties, the sign f * s used to indicate the county in which the church is situated.

Having also examined recently published gazetteers, I have for convenience arranged all such parishes under the counties in which they are at the present time situated. It should, however, be stated that the parish now only in one county is frequently much smaller in area than the old parish extending into two counties. This has been broughi about in several ways, viz. : (1) The part o: the parish formerly extending into a second county still remains in that county, having been converted into another parish or addec to an adjoining parish in the second county (2) The original parish has been split up int< three or more parishes, and the boundarie of these adjusted, so that each is entirely in one county. (3) Parts of the parish in an adjoining county have all been transferred, so as to be in one county only. (4) Parishes still retaining the same name in both counties, but distinguished by the cardinal point, such as East and West, from each other.

There were no parishes in more than two counties.

COUNTIES IN ENGLAND.

Bedfordshire.

laddington. Herts and Beds.f jtudham. Beds* and Herts.

Whipsnade. Beds* and Herts (entered in census as under Beds only).

Berkshire.

Joleshill. Berks* and Wilts. Hungerford. Berks* and Wilts. Sonning. Berksf and Oxon. Stratfield Mortimer. Berks* and Hants.

Buckingham.

bstone or Ipstone. Bucks and Oxon.f ckford. Bucks* and Oxon. Cambridge. Outwell. Norfolkf and Cambridge (now two

parishes of the same name in each county), 'apworth St. Agnes. Cambridge and Hunts. Upwell with Welney. (See under Norfolk.)

Cheshire. Barthomley. Cheshire* and Stafford.

Cornwall. Boyton. Cornwall* and Devon.

Derbyshire.

Scropton (Foston and 'Scropton). Stafford and Derby.*

Devon. A.xminster. Devon* and Dorset.

Dorsetshire. Hampreston. Dorset* and Hants.

Durham. Stockburn. Durham* and York.f

Essex. Helion Bumpstead. Essex* and Cambridge.

Gloucestershire. *

Welford-upon-Avon. Gloucester and Warwick. Weston-upon-Avon. Gloucester and Warwick.

Hampshire.

Bramshaw. Hantsf and Wilts. Steep. Hants* and Sussex. Strathfield (or Stratfield) Saye. Hants*

Berks. Whitsbury. Wilts* and Hants.

Herefordshire.

Richards Castle. Salop and Hereford, f Hertfordshire.

and

Royston. Hertsf and Cambridge.

Ramsey (or bridge.

Huntingdonshire. Ram's Island). Hunts* and Cam-

Stanground or Standground. Hunts* and Cam- bridge. Winwick (near Oundle). Northants and Hunts.

Kent.

Lamberhurst. Sussex* and Kent. Lancashire^

Mitton. York and Lancashire (now consists of Great Mitton in Yorkshire, Little Mitton in Lancashire and other parishes. Part of the township of Clitheroe, Lancashire, was in this parish).

Rochdale. Lancashire* and York.

Whalley. Lancashire* and York (formerly a populous parish in mid-Lancashire, but since divided. The present Whalley parish has only a small population).