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Originally Posted by blazey
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
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Playing by those rules then I suppose Ossy would be classed as a village but I have lived here for over 25 years and never heard it referred to as such.
I know that Huncoat, Green Haworth and Belthorn are villages but I always thought of Ossy as a town.
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