Township (England)

In England, a township (Latin: villa) is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church.

However, in some cases, particularly in Northern England, there was a lesser unit called a township, being a subdivision of a parish.

This could happen for several reasons: The local historian Dorothy Silvester has identified a "parish line", which divided northern from southern counties of England and Wales.

[5] The use of the term 'township' persisted and has recently been revived as a name for subdivisions of boroughs in northern England.

It is located in the eastern part of the city and is one of the wards that make up the Sheffield Attercliffe parliamentary constituency.