1.   Distribution of guilds was uneven, many rural parishes having none at all, while a town might contain several.

2.   He was vicar of a rural parish in which he was very happy and had no desire to move.

3.   Some rural parishes also recorded relatively high adventitious populations.

4.   Such demographic changes wrought by industrialism meant the Decline of rural parishes and the creation of a new urbanised and industrial poor.

5.   May I suggest that you include the rural parishes in Wyre District as far south as Garstang in this consultation.

6.   The Booth family were amongst the leading chapmen who organised the nail trade in the rural parishes that lay to the north of Sheffield.

7.   Sixteenth-century towns do not appear to have had a solid group of stable families in the same way as so many contemporary rural parishes.

8.   But this rural Louisiana parish near Shreveport is hardly the only community that can lay claim to the Barrow gang.

9.   If local option prevails, video-poker machines might be outlawed in rural parishes, but huge casinos would survive in parishes that are expected to validate gambling.