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    A strip parish is a parish with a narrow, elongated shape, formed typically during the Anglo-Saxon and early medieval period. The shape is influenced by...
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    The western edge of the Chilterns is notable for ancient strip parishes, elongated parishes with villages in the flatter land below the escarpment, and...
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    a WNW cut – then a dyke – was dug to cut across a low plain of the strip parish of Lambeth and is emulated by a key section of the Southern Low Level...
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    Great Bookham (category Former civil parishes in Surrey)
    settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. With the narrow strip parish of Little Bookham, it forms part of the Saxon settlement of Bocham ("the...
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    (premiums on estates being transferred), Assize Rolls and subsidy rolls its parishes were: By the end of the 15th century (due to subinfeudation) some 22 manors...
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    Princes Risborough (category Civil parishes in Buckinghamshire)
    present ecclesiastical parish of Lacey Green, which became a separate parish in the 19th century. It was long and narrow (a "strip parish"), taking in land...
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    Pyrton (category Civil parishes in Oxfordshire)
    is the eighth largest of a district of 87 civil parishes. Pyrton is a strip parish. The ancient parish comprised two detached portions extending about...
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  • The Bossier Strip is the name for an entertainment district in Bossier City, Louisiana, that is widely known for its nightclubs, bars, strip joints, restaurants...
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  • Spring line villages are often the principal settlements in strip parishes, with long, narrow parish boundaries stretching up to the top of the ridge and down...
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    Welford, Berkshire (category Civil parishes in Berkshire)
    River Lambourn north-west of Newbury and south of Wantage. It forms a strip parish which tapers in the south where it contains the hamlet of Halfway. It...
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