Archdeaconry
A subdivision of a Diocese under the jurisdiction of an Archdeacon.

Borough
A town sending a member to Parliament, and governed by a municipal charter. It may be a county itself.

Chapelry
A part of a parish, with its own church; sometimes it has its own separate register.

City
The head of a Diocese, with a cathedral church.

County Town
Capital city of a county or shire.

Deanery
A sub-division of an archdeaconery under the jurisdiction of a rural dean.

Diocese
An ecclesiastical division, consisting of a number of parishes, under the jurisdiction of a Bishop.

Extra-Parochial District
A special district with certain independent jurisdiction.

Hamlet
A group of houses; a small village.

Hide Of Land
A portion of land sufficient for the support of one family. (in old English law 80-120 acres)

Hundred
A sub-division of a shire; ten or twelve tithings.

Liberty
A special division of a parish or town having certain priviledges or immunities.

Manor
A landed estate of varying size.

Parish
(1) An ecclesiastical division of the Church of England with a clergyman.

(2) Also, a local civil district for administration of poor law, roads, etc. The boundaries are not necessarily the same as the ecclesiastical parish. (also called township)

Registration District
A political unit for government registration of births, marriages and deaths since July 1, 1837.

Shire
A county

Tithing
A unit of civil administration originally consisting of ten householders (10 hides of land); anciently, a unit for ecclesiastical rates.

Town
A populous place.

Township
A civil parish. (having no parish registers)

Union
Two or more parishes consolidated for joint administration of poor relief in the workhouse system.

Village
A group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area.

I though I'd add a few others, which seem to be specific to this region :-
< I suspect over time this might expand>

Meend

A village Common or Green

Tump

A mound or barrow, hillock

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Tump, of course, is a mispelling for Twymp as in Twmbarlwm Twymp in the glorious county of Monmouthshire. Lol.

Whilst on linguistic similarities between Monmouthshire and the FOD, I have lived all over South East England and been greeted with mystified stares when I mentioned the word Wimberry. However, I noticed a Wimberry Hill in the FOD. In Monmouthshire as a child I can rememmber many a glorious hour in July picking these glaucous black edible berries growing on the prostrate shrub Vaccinium Vitus-ideaus. These grew on Wimbery mountains of which there were many in the County (including Twmbarlwm crowned by the Iron Age Fort or Twymp).

Chris Morgan

Yes there were certainly Wimberries in the FoD.I picked them as a boy near Edge Hill Lodge adjacent to where the current communication masts are sited but haven't been there recently,hopefully there may be some still there.
Maurice

S

The above details which I noted above have been put into a PDF file which is available in our Miscellaneous Documents section of the Web site. I will update the file and include the additions you have added.

http://www.forest-of-dean.net/joomla/resources/documents-and-articles