Talk:Balsham

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Balsham is definitely a village in cambridgeshire, rather than a town.

• Over 1640 people in the 2001 Census makes it a bit larger that a village, surely? 81.131.28.173 17:10, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Balsham does not have a town council, unlike Haverhill, Saffron Walden and Newmarket, which are nearby towns. Linton, a much larger place, has Village college, and is still considered a village.

Town councils are rapidly becoming things of the past. It would be easy to list a vast number of towns which once had them as well as town halls and no longer do. Local administration has been usurped by other forms of local government. Possibly the Scottish Borders are a prime example whereby towns such as Selkirk, Galashiels, Hawick, Kelso, and Duns, all of which had town councils since at least the 13th century, no longer do. They are still towns. Villages and towns are probably best measured by population in this day and age where they may not even have a post office or shop. Linton's village college may have been established when it was a village. If its population grew to 4000 would you still insist upon calling it a village just because of the college? 81.131.90.78 07:28, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

See Largest Village in England for more on this issue. As there are no hard and fast rules, there is going to be some controversy over this. But if anyone visited Balsham, and spoke to the residents, I think most of them would consider themselves a village rather than a town!

As a Balsham Resident, it is deffo a village.