Question: Hancock is an unincorporated community which in British geography is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a what?

Context articles: Charlottesville, Indiana
Toland, Pennsylvania
Hamlet (place)
Saffold, Georgia
Patrick, Nevada
Hancock, West Virginia
State Hill, Pennsylvania
Hancock, Pennsylvania
Randolph (town), Wisconsin
Culverton, Georgia

Charlottesville is an unincorporated community in Hancock and Rush counties in the U.S. state of Indiana.
 The Hancock County portion is in Jackson Township, while the Rush County portion is in Ripley Township.
Toland is an unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States.
 The very small village is located on Pine Grove Road, east of Mountain Creek Campground.
 Michaux State Forest, the site of Laurel Lake, Fuller Lake and Pine Grove Furnace State Park lie a few miles to the west near the intersection of Pine Grove Road and PA route 233.
 Toland has a mailing address of Gardners Pennsylvania, because the size of the community doesn't warrant a post-office, nor an official incorporated name.
 What is now a sand pit operation was originally a clay bank mining operation that was the reason for the location of the village of Toland.
 Less than 50 people reside in the close-knit community, which was built for the clay bank company workers in the first quarter of the 20th century.
 The original community of Toland, Pennsylvania consisted of 11 duplex houses, built side by side along Pine Grove Road, with less than 0.17 of an acre of land to each.
 Additional homes have been built since.
 When the community was originally built there was only a common well with a hand pump for all of the families to draw from.
 Toland is less than 1/4 of a mile long, and it is located less than half a mile from the Appalachian trail crossing.
 The closest town is Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania located (3 miles north of Toland).
 The village is roughly 10 miles south of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 7 miles south east of Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, and 15 miles South of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
 The only business in Toland is the Cherokee Campground formerly known as the Tagg Run Campground.
 The campground restaurant is now closed.
 Toland Mission is a small non-denominational church that can hold up to 74 persons.
 It was originally built by the owner of Beetem Lumber Company in Carlisle for the families of the community of Toland.
 A one-room school house near the church originally served the community, but it was converted to a home when residents' children were transported to a township school.
 Local people in Toland usually travel to the town of Mount Holly Springs for necessities such as gas, food, and toiletries.
A hamlet is a small human settlement.
 In different jurisdictions and geographies, hamlets may be the size of a town, village or parish, be considered a smaller settlement or subdivision of a larger, or be treated as a satellite entity to a larger settlement.
 The word and concept of a hamlet have roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French "hemelet " came to apply to small human settlements.
 In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church.
Saffold is an unincorporated community in Early County, Georgia, United States.
 Its western boundary is the Chattahoochee River also bordering Gordon, Alabama.
 U.S Route 84 and SR 370 pass through the community.
 It is the only unincorporated city on U.S Route 84 that is near a smaller city.
 It is located 20 miles south of Blakely, 21 miles northeast of Dothan, Alabama, five miles south of the Georgia-Pacific Cedar Springs Operations, and two miles northwest of Jakin.
 It is a small unincorporated community near the Alabama state line.
 At the Georgia state line, U.S Route 84 starts and ends with Saffold the only unincorporated community on the route.
 Georgia State Route 370 is the first and last state route for SR 62 and U.S. Route 84.
 In Christmas of 2015, a flood struck Saffold, Gordon, Hilton and Columbia, Alabama.
Patrick is an unincorporated community in Storey County which was the site of a historic ranch.
 The founder of the ranch, Patrick McCarran, arrived in Nevada in 1858 as a member of the United States Army under General Winfield Scott Hancock.
 In 1862 McCarran claimed 2600 acre of land that would become McCarran Ranch and the unincorporated community of Patrick.
 Patrick's son, Pat McCarran, became Nevada's first native born U.S. Senator and a staunch anti communist.
 Patrick Nevada is also the owner of four of the cattle in the ranch.
Hancock is an unincorporated community hamlet in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.
 It is located off Hancock Road (U.S. Route 522) on River Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 1) along the Potomac River north of Berkeley Springs.
 Originally known as Brosius, its post office's name was changed to Hancock in 1948 to reflect its location on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline across the river from Hancock, Maryland.
State Hill is a rather large and sparsely populated unincorporated community in Lower Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania, in Berks County.
 The area that is now State Hill was once called Lorah, Pennsylvania.
 This was named for the first settler within the village's boundary.
 At one time, the main road through the unincorporated community was called Dry Road.
 It received the name for lack of water to tap into for wells.
 This road is now known as Brownsville Road.
 The village started out as just a few cabins, but by the mid-1800s had built a Tavern.
 It was called Dry Tavern, named after the road it was on.
 The village has a great view of Blue Marsh Lake along Brownsville Rd.
 It is also home to an extinct elementary school, Lower Heidelberg Consolidated School, which ran from 1931 to 2006.
 It is served by the academically prestigious Wilson School District.
 State Hill also has several businesses, including Berks Western Telecom, Ganly's Pub and Deli, Blue Marsh Taxidermy, a Fire Station, and a Police station.
 Ganly's was built in 1993.
 It was built where The Beer Garden Tavern used to be on.
 There are also 5-6 row homes on the intersection of State Hill Road and Brownsville Road.
 These were built by the government for the residents of the now flooded Blue Marsh village.
Hancock is an unincorporated community in Longswamp Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
 Hancock is located at the intersection of State Street and Park Avenue.
Randolph is a town in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States.
 The population was 699 at the 2000 census.
 The Village of Randolph lies to the southeast of the town and only a tiny portion of the village is within the town.
 The unincorporated community of East Friesland is located in the town.
 The unincorporated community of Ingle is also located partially in the town.
Culverton (also Mount Carmel) is an unincorporated community in Hancock County, Georgia, United States.
 It lies along State Route 16 to the east of the city of Sparta, the county seat of Hancock County.
 Its elevation is 554 feet (169 m).