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Pitsford is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. According to 2001 census , the parish's population was 636 people, [ 1 ] increasing to 671 at the 2011 census. [ 2 ]
The Reverend Robert Skinner, who succeeded his father as Rector of Pitsford in 1628, was subsequently Bishop of Bristol (1636), Bishop of Oxford (1641) and following the Restoration became Bishop of Worcester in 1663. The parish registers survive from 1560, the historic registers being deposited at Northamptonshire Record Office. [5]
Parish County or unitary authority Area (hectares) Stanhope: Durham: 25,557 ... Parish councils in England; List of the most populous civil parishes in England;
A parish council is a civil local authority found in England, which is the lowest tier of local government. [1] Parish councils are elected corporate bodies, with variable tax raising powers, and they carry out beneficial public activities in geographical areas known as civil parishes. There are about 10,480 parish and town councils in England. [2]
Moulton is a large village in West Northamptonshire. [1] The population of the civil parish at the 2021 Census was 5,491. [2]The villages name is thought to be derived from 'town of the mill', or perhaps 'Meleton' - meaning protected town, since the church, manor house and castle were all within bowshot.
From 1845 to 1930, parishes formed part of the local government system of Scotland: having parochial boards from 1845 to 1894, and parish councils from 1894 until 1930.. The parishes, which had their origins in the ecclesiastical parishes of the Church of Scotland, often overlapped county boundaries, largely because they reflected earlier territorial divisions.
A parochial church council (PCC) is the executive committee of a Church of England parish and consists of clergy and churchwardens of the parish, together with representatives of the laity. It has its origins in the vestry committee, which looked after both religious and secular matters in a parish. It is a corporate charitable body.
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