Grimstead is a

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 ...

on the River Dun in

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, England, to the south-east of

Salisbury Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of Wil ...

. Its settlements are the villages of

East Grimstead East Grimstead is a village in Grimstead civil parish, on the River Dun in Wiltshire, England, about east of Salisbury. The village has about 70 households and no shops, public houses or schools. History The site of a Roman villa is a shor ...

and West Grimstead. The 2011 census recorded a parish population of 534. East Grimstead and West Grimstead each have an ecclesiastical parish with a parish church, dedicated to Holy Trinity and St John respectively. Today both are within the area of the Clarendon benefice, a group of nine rural parishes. The first tier of local government is Grimstead Parish Council. The parish is in the area of

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unitary authority A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governmen ...

, which performs all significant local government functions. For parliamentary purposes, the parish falls within the

constituency.

References

External links

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Grimstead Parish Council
* {{cite web, website=Wiltshire Community History, title=Grimstead, url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/110, publisher=Wiltshire Council, access-date=10 December 2015 Civil parishes in Wiltshire