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A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. It is usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town or city. Villages have been the normal unit of community living in most areas of the world throughout its history, up until the Industrial revolution and the ongoing process of urbanization. In many U.S. states, a village is a type of municipal government (see below).1 Traditional villages
Although many types and organizational patterns of village life have existed, the typical village was small, consisting of perhaps 5 to 30 families. Homes were situated together for sociability and defense, and land surrounding the living quarters was farmed.
2 England
In England the main historical distinction between a hamlet and a village is that the latter will have a church, and will therefore usually have been the worship centre of a parish. A village is traditionally distinguished from a town in that a village lacks a regular market.
There is much dispute over which is the largest village in England. Places claiming to be the largest include Cranleigh in Surrey, Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, both HaddenhamHaddenham is a large village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is about 5 miles south west of Aylesbury and 2 miles north east of Thame. The village name is Anglo Saxon and means Haeda's Homestead''. It was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hedreham th and WendoverFor other places named "Wendover", see Wendover, Utah, and West Wendover, Nevada. Wendover is a picturesque market town that sits at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. The mainly arable parish is 5,832 acres (24 kmē) in size and b in BuckinghamshireBuckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks is a county in south central England. The county town is Aylesbury. Buckinghamshire is divided into four districts: Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe. The ceremonial county (which is based on the post- 19, BrauntonBraunton is situated 4 miles west of Barnstaple in north Devon, and is supposed to be the largest village in England. It is home to the nearby Braunton Great Field, and Braunton Burrows, a nature reserve of world importance. External link Villages in Devo in DevonThis page is about the English county, for alternative meanings see Devon (disambiguation). Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. The name Devonshire was common but is no longer used,, Birchington in KentThis article is about the English county of Kent. See also Kent (disambiguation). Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. The county town is Maidstone. Kent has land borders with East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London, and a defined boundary wi, HorsforthA suburb of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire. It can be found at Ordnance Survey grid reference SE 236 376 GB Grid. Horsforth was considered to have the largest population of any village in the United Kingdom during the latter part of the nineteenth cent in West YorkshireWest Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. It borders on Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. It is composed, Street in Somerset, Bembridge on the Isle of Wight, Ruskington in Lincolnshire and Kidlington in Oxfordshire.
