Talk:Cannock

message: I've lived in Cannock more than twenty years - I've never heard anyone say 'do your rip'.
Hedgehog 09:11, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black country dialect - not relevant to Cannock page? 

message: Cannock Urban Area is a demographic and statistical entity used for housing, services and other planning issues.  It does not define borders between vilages, town and cities within that urban area.  For example the West Midland Urban Area does not distinguish between Walsall, Wolverhmpaton, Brownhills etc and neither does Cannock Urban Area distinguish between Cannock Town and the towns and villages surrounding it. In fact the Cannock Urban Area includes villages that are not even in the district that Cannock itself is part of such as Great Wryley and Cheslyn Hay. This article, I believe, should be about Cannock the town which has a clearly definied political border (seperate from the town of hednesford, and the villages of heath hayes, norton canes et al) and with this in mind I have reverted to the population count of the total of the four defined wards of Cannock.  If we can include a section that seperatly identifies the surrounding towns and villages of Cannock, then surely it would be appropriate to exlude these settlements from the population count, anything else would be inconsistant.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aprhys (talk • contribs) 12:43, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cannock Urban Area 

message: To Kinewma, you seem to have a keen interest in statistics, particularly the population figures given for Cannock.  I have removed the ludicrous statement that Cannock and Hednesford are part of a larger mythical town.  This assumption is based upon a misunderstanding of the figures given for "Cannock" from the Staffordshire County Council.  One can assume one of two things from this document, either,
Staffs County Council have arbitarily decided that Cannock and Hednesford are now to be considered one single "New Town".  This would be news to the people of the area and a shock to the councillors of Hednesford Town Council and the parishes.
or,
As the document states itself it is a statistical measure of wards and OUTPUT AREAS (surrounding areas considered to be linked economically and socially to the principle town) and should be used with caution when talking about areas that have CLEARLY DEFINED POLITICAL AND CIVIC BORDERS).
Yet again it should be stressed that Cannock is a town in its own right. Each of those villages and towns quoted as being part of this non-existant larger town have their own pages on wikipedia and each gives individual figures for their populations.  The only exception to this is Cannock.  Why can we state for example that Heath Hayes has x population and Hednesford has y population but must assume that Cannock's population is x + y + (whoever is left living in the Cannock wards) this is clearly absurd.  These surrounding towns and villages are NOT suburbs, Cannock even has a right to a town council but they gave up this right several decades ago - must this need to start up again before we can give Cannock its own identity?
It is absolutely true that there is a mass of buildings stretching from Pye Green down to Cheslyn Hay and from Huntington through to Five Ways island but this is recognised as the Cannock / Great Wyrley Urban Area.  Urban areas, however, do not decide what is a town.  Maybe in the future this will provide the basis for Cannock becoming a Unitary Authority or something akin to what happened with Stoke when it becames a city but until then please keep the details and the figures in the Urban Area wiki page that has been created for them.Aprhys (talk) 08:56, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urban Area / Large Town 

message: The cnocc etymology is the one given in the Oxford Dictionary of English Placenames and, though my Old English is less than perfect, I don't think there was such a word as cann meaning "powerful" (and "oak" was ac anyway). I've taken Jakki Degg off the list because I'm pretty sure she's from Hednesford, and if I know anything about people from Hednesford she might be none too pleased!
Hedgehog 12:38, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is cnocc Old English? 

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