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Originally Posted by cherokee
Dosent Stanhill still do that ??? I know it was very proud of its status once upon a time
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Hmm I've never even really thought of stanhill as a seperate place to oswaldtwistle. It does indeed have its own small shop and post office, and once a church though I think its just a house now isnt it?
If stanhill is classed as a place on its own then I guess it would classify as a village, at least in my view of a village anyway.
got this off dictionary.net
In England, a hamlet denotes a collection of houses, too small to have a parish church. A village has a church, but no market. A town has both a market and a church or churches. A city is, in the legal sense, an incorporated borough town, which is, or has been, the place of a bishop's see. In the United States these distinctions do not hold