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Line 70: A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely populated rural area with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, to a large [[town]] with a population [[List of the most populous civil parishes in England\|in excess of 100,000]]. This scope is similar to that of municipalities in Continental Europe, such as the [[communes of France]]. However, unlike their continental European counterparts, parish councils are not [[Principal council\|principal authorities]], and in most cases have a relatively minor role in local government.<ref name="Office for National Statistics" /><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/sps/migrated/documents/neilbarnett.pdf \|title=Is UK local government really so big? \|last1=Barnett \|first1=Neil \|last2=Sweeting \|first2=David \|website=bristol.ac.uk \|date=2013 \|access-date=20 July 2022}}</ref> As of 311 ~~December~~April ~~2015~~2022 <ref>https://cy.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/administrativegeography/england#:~:text=Many%20parishes%20are%20a%20similar,are%2010%2C480%20parishes%20in%20England.</ref> there were 10,449 parishes in England,<ref name="Office for National Statistics"/> and in 2020 they covered approximately 40% of the English population.<ref name="UAparishHOCL">{{cite web \|last1=Baker \|first1=Carl \|last2=Sandford \|first2=Mark \|title=Unitary authorities: The role of parish and town councils \|url=https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/unitary-authorities-the-role-of-parish-and-town-councils/ \|publisher=House of Commons Library \|access-date=8 March 2023 \|date=16 December 2020}}</ref> For historical reasons, civil parishes predominantly cover rural areas and smaller urban areas, with most larger urban areas being wholly or partly [[Unparished area\|unparished]]; but since 1997 it has been possible for civil parishes to be created within unparished areas if [[#Revival\|demanded by local residents]]. In 2007 the right to create civil parishes was extended to [[London borough]]s,<ref name=reviews>{{cite book\| url=http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/localgovernment/pdf/1527635.pdf \| title=Guidance on Community Governance Reviews \| publisher=[[Department for Communities and Local Government]] \|location=London \|isbn=978-1-4098-2421-3 \|year=2010}}</ref> although only one, [[Queen's Park, London\|Queen's Park]], has so far been created.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18249803\|title=Queen's Park parish gets go-ahead\|work=BBC News\|date=29 May 2012}}</ref> Eight parishes also have [[City status in the United Kingdom\|city status]] (a status granted by the [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom\|monarch]]). A civil parish may be equally known as and confirmed as a town, village, [[neighbourhood]] or [[community]] by resolution of its parish council, a right not conferred on other units of English local government. The governing body of a civil parish is usually an elected parish council (which can decide to call itself a town, village, community or neighbourhood council, or a city council if the parish has city status). Alternatively, in parishes with small populations (typically fewer than 150 electors) governance may be by a [[parish meeting]] which all electors may attend; alternatively, parishes with small populations may be grouped with one or more neighbours under a common parish council.

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