Talk:Beating the bounds

message: The EB1911 text could stand to be modernized. The brief paragraph on contemporary celebrations needs examples and references. David Brooks 06:21, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Prologue

message: What is meant by "the boundaries of the parish"?  Are we talking about the grounds immediately surrounding a church building (in which case, I would think walking the boundaries would take at most a few minutes)?   Or is the "parish" a larger territory?  Are we talking several square miles for a typical parish?  Hundreds of square miles? 71.219.242.203 (talk) 14:02, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A Parish in historical terms normally related to the ecclesiastical parish and would be a delineated area reaching out to that of the next parish. Some amy be less than 100acres others maybe 1000 acres. But in all such cases they would be circumnavigated even if it took several days. Not all perambulations were around the church's administrative boundaries some wre around manorial territories or towns including harbours. Since 1885 in England these church parishes were largely replaced as the administrative body by civil parishes and perambulations occur around both today Tmol42 (talk) 22:54, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for this helpful answer.  Now, if this information could be incorporated into the article, it will give readers a much better sense of what "beating the bounds" is.GPS Pilot (talk) 19:21, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it edit away! Tmol42 (talk) 21:30, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Parish Boundaries

message: I feel that we English Wikipedians can explain this tradition better than the current article. – Kaihsu (talk) 13:44, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well get stuck in and improve it.Tmol42 (talk) 17:24, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  To be improved 

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