Strip parish is a term used by geographers, historians and archaeologists to denote a parish typically formed during the Anglo-Saxon and early medieval period where their narrow elongated shape has been influenced by landscape, political and economic factors. Evidence of such parishes can be found throughout England although they appear to have been more common in a number of southern counties particularly but not exclusively associated with locations encompassing both lowland and upland landscapes or alternatively coastal communities.
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Famous quotes containing the words strip and/or parish:
“Here we’ll strip and cool our fire
In cream below, in milk-baths higher;
And when all wells are drawn dry,
I’ll drink a tear out of thine eye.”
—Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)
“My stardust melody, the memory of love’s refrain.”
—Mitchell Parish (1901–1993)