Collocations withparish
These are words often used in combination withparish.
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active parish
Active parish councils at grassroots level could bring forward proposals and run some of the services.
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Hansard archive
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local parish
This edition of two major, if very different, clean-copy registers of cases before two local church courts, sitting in local parish churches, is in many ways exemplary.
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neighbouring parish
Farmers in one parish may receive £191 in subsidy and farmers in the neighbouring parish, producing exactly the same tonnage of cereal per hectare, may receive £93.
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parish boundary
An even more vivid way to depict the parish boundary, at least to the modern mind, was to use a map.
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parish hall
When a year had passed, the child and the foster-parents had to return once again to the parish hall for a new auction.
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parish vestry
The forum that enabled them to do so was the parish vestry, a body whose constitution remains obscure.
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rural parish
There is provision, because where a district has a rural parish the allotments will remain under the control of the parish.
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Hansard archive
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surrounding parish
The surrounding parish received an influx of business due to the royal presence, and a new parish church.
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