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Deddington is a town (not a village)and they are quire sensitive about the status. If you mistakenly refer to Deddington as a village, any true Deddingtonian will correct you. Unsigned comment 15:25, 30 March 2006 194.203.97.129
I have done a bit of research, and I cannot find any reference for Deddington being a town. Ordnance Survey
[1], Deddington online
[2], Deddington News
[3] all say Village. Even the article
Deddington Primary School, Deddington. I have left the statement in for the moment, but it would be nice to see a reference for the claim.
MortimerCat21:50, 9 April 2007 (UTC)reply
From the
Ordnance Survey MapZone: "A town is usually defined as a centre of business and population with an area in excess of 2.5 square kilometres (1 square mile). Some smaller places are also historically considered towns, for example, where they are market or former county towns." Would Deddington meet this defintion? Perhaps in the absence of other input from the original poster, the statement could be reworded along the lines of that it's status as town vs village is disputed? (though again, a citation for that would be nice!)
SophieD16:58, 16 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Is its
parish council called a town council? That would be a clincher. Saga City ♥ 19:44, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Would it? The council is "Deddington Parish Council". However, "Deddington was a thriving market town from at least as early as the C11, but had declined in importance by the C18" (Sherwood & Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, 1974, page 571). Deddington built a new Town Hall in 1806, acquired a prison in 1854 and had a magistrates' court by 1874 (see new section in article).
Oxfordshire has a village (
Kidlington) that is the size of a town and economically functions like one. I suggest that Oxfordshire also has towns that are the size of villages and have therefore been given parish councils. Wikipedia calls
Bampton a village despite its having a town hall, whereas it correctly calls
Watlington a town. Historically Bampton, Deddington and Watlington were towns for centuries. Does the creation of parish councils, probably in the 1890's, trump all that history?
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