Grafton, Herefordshire
Grafton is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. The population of this civil parish was 258 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census. The parish includes the villages of Grafton and Bullinghope, and is immediately to the south of Hereford city. The origin of the place-name is from the Old English words ''graf'' and ''tun'' meaning a farmstead in or by a grove; the place-name appears as ''Crafton'' in 1303. References External links

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Civil Parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes, which historically played a role in both secular and religious administration. Civil and religious parishes were formally differentiated in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. Civil parishes in their modern form came into being through the Local Government Act 1894, which established elected parish councils to take on the secular functions of the parish vestry. A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely populated rural area with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, to a large town with a population in the tens of thousands. This scope is similar to that of municipalities in Continental Europe, such as the communes of France. However, ...
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