Talk:Six Mile Bottom

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This place has a church; isn't it therefore a village rather than a hamlet as stated?[edit]

Wikipedia defines British hamlet (place) as follows "In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church or other place of worship"

Wiktionary includes a definition of wikt:hamlet as "(Britain) A village that does not have its own church."

Six Mile Bottom does have a church, built 1933, which is still in use (though rarely more than once/month). [1]

So it seems it should be classified as a village.

However, the article says in six places that it is a hamlet, and it is included in

which states in its intro (my italics): "While "hamlet" is loosely defined, the places in this category are either settlements with tiny populations that are consequentially part of combined civil parishes or historically attached to a nearby village, places self-defined as "hamlets" by their inhabitants or local government, and places named after roads or crossings around which small named settlements have formed. The presence of a historic church in some older villages means that although they may now be smaller than some hamlets, their historic definition as a village still stands."

South Cambridgeshire District Council defines it as a village;[2] I've no idea whether the people who live there self-define as hamlet-dwellers or not; it is unclear whether a church built in 1933, just about "within living memory" counts as historic; and even if they do and it is, it is unclear what we should do when one clause makes it a hamlet, while the other makes it a village and the local council calls it so.

The article states the place had "22 homes housing around 170 people in around 1920" and the council estimated in 2012 that it has population of about 120. I have no personal view on whether it is a hamlet or a village, but wanted to flag the anomaly. Enginear (talk) 22:13, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]