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Yes very nice..you can't really call Ossie a village..a real village has a fat vicar and a commitee of inbred retards whom tend towards nazism but are really nice people at heart....that's not Ossie!

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You're thinking of Dibley.

Dawn French isn't really a vicar.;)

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ok..I know a real fat female vicar would not let a black man poke her...but maybe Blazey has a good argument,the present inhabitants of Ossie are not what you would call intelligent human beings..(oh I recall the nights down the Cross and Tinker)..;)

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Hmmm, and Ossy thinks so highly of its village idiot that it elected him to leadership of the borough. What ye sow, so shall ye reap.

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I meant that its a bit too big and got too much commercial business to really be seen as a village.
All the villages i've been in seem to be very close tightknit communities with basic public buildings such as a church, a school, a few small shops for newpapers and basic groceries etc, and a town hall.
Oswaldtwistle is a bit more developed than that now, and so more suitably labelled as a small town, though some might argue against that, just as some probably want to contend Preston being a city.

No need to be touchy about it and bring the topic of nazi's onto every single thread :rolleyes:

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I've never heard Oswaldtwistle being referred to as a village before. :confused:

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I've only heard it from the gypsies, from when I used to work at the veg shop Fruitcakes (that isnt open anymore), and they used to come in every now and again at the one down near the town hall for their shopping. I used to know a few of the settled travellers when I lived in Accrington and they used to always refer to it as 'ossy village'. Have there ever been welcome signs before perhaps that referred to it as a village?

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Ossy has always been referred to as a village and once had all the qualities of one too ..
Sadly imo i dont think its worthy of that status any longer .

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I think if I'm not mistaken, only feniscoles (sp) is the only local place that still prides itself as a village, but I've never been there, only had a friend telling me that as she lived there, so she may be just over exaggerating its village-like qualities.

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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

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Besides Stanhill, there's Belthorn, Green Howarth, and I think Huncoat is classed as a village too.

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I dont even know where the first two are, but I think Huncoat has also gone the same way as Oswaldtwistle.

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Green Howarth and Belthorn are both villages on the edge of Ossy. You need to get your hiking boots on and get out more.