*'Township' is however sometimes used loosely where one of these is meant. * Tithing - the basic unit of the medieval Frankpledge system. * Chapelry - the 'parish' of a chapel, that is a church without full parochial functions. * Parish - originally the area served by a particular church. * Vill - traditionally, amongst legal historians, a vill referred to the tract of land of a rural community, whereas 'township' was referred to when the tax and legal administration of a rural community was meant. This meant that townships became civil parishes. The original definition of a Civil Parish was any place in respect of which a rate could lawfully be levied.
[ cite bookĪ township appointed overseers of the poor and surveyors of highways in the same way as a parish and they financed their obligations by levying a rate, in the same way as parish officials. However, south of this line, parishes tended to contain single townships. The local historian, Dorothy Silvester, has identified a "parish line", which divided northern from southern counties of England and Wales (from Denbighshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire, north.) North of this line, parishes tended on the whole to be large, containing several townships. *There or elsewhere, occasionally, different parts of a parish were in different hundreds or counties. Title=The Rural Landscape of the Welsh Borderland Walley parish, in Lancashire, contained 47 townships and extended over 430 square kilometres (105,000 acres). For example, Sheffield constituted a single parish, which had six townships in it - Ecclesall Bierlow, Brightside Bierlow, Attercliffe cum Darnall, Nether Hallam, Upper Hallam, and Sheffield itself. *In some parts of northern England, the parishes were too large to be managed conveniently. However in some cases, particularly in northern England, there was a lesser unit called a township, being a subdivision of a parish. In many areas of England, the basic unit of civil administration was the parish, generally identical with the ecclesiastical parish. A township may (or may not) be co-terminous with a chapelry, manor, or other minor area of local administration. In England, township (latin - "vill") usually means a village or hamlet.
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