Talk:Elmstead Market

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Merger proposal

Seems no merit for having separate articles for the village and for the parish for such a small area, especially as neither article is good at clarifying that that is how they are related. Article about the village doesn't even refer to the parish: article about the parish considers the village to be a different, but nearby, place. They each have their own entry in the Essex villages category. Kevin McE (talk) 10:18, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Parish includes two other Elmsteads - Elmsted Heath and Elmstead Row which do not have their own Wikipedia entries.Bebofpenge (talk) 05:08, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at an OS map, Elmstead Row is definitely in Alresford Parish, and it looks like the Alresford parish boundary runs along the back of Elmstead Row placing that in Alresford Parish too. You would not these days be able to tell where Alresford ends and Elmstead Row begins. Elmstead Market is the village. Elmstead is the Parish and (I would say) a hamlet (farm, church, big house, couple of cottages). I don't believe any of Elmstead Row, Elmstead Heath and even Elmstead itself have signs saying that you are entering a hamlet of those names (unlike say Ravens Green, Balls Green and Hare Green nearby which at least appear on signposts so you can find them). I'm not sure whether this helps the discussion. EdLoach(talk) 07:47, 2 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.154.137.123 (talk) [reply]

Elmstead is technically the village as it has the church, Elmstead Market is the settlement in Elmstead parish, either Elmstead Market should have a separate article or be merged with Elmstead, not the other way round. Crouch, Swale (talk) 15:40, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]