Talk:Balsham

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[edit] Village or town?

Balsham is definitely a village in Cambridgeshire, rather than a town. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Timmow (talk • contribs) 08:08, April 14, 2006

  • 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.
      • 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)
    • Linton, a much larger place, has Village college, and is still considered a village.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.89.105 (talk) 112:10, April 27, 2006
    • 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! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.89.105 (talk) 10:05, May 12, 2006
    • As a Balsham Resident, it is deffo a village. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.134.98.113 (talk) 07:08, June 11, 2006

[edit] Original research or unverified claims

Material is either unreferenced or references are unclear. Inline citations would greatly improve the article. Some content is clearly WP:OR and sections based on personal communication have already been removed as not WP:V. Yellowspacehopper (talk) 20:57, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

See Herne Bay, Kent for a good example of a geographical article. I've started mapping out a similar framework and adding appropriate references. Yellowspacehopper (talk) 02:54, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

  • My edit was to correct an erroneous comment about plough monday, which was re-created as a charitable event to mend the village church,in conjunction with Rev Hunter and not by Jim Daniels but by those I listed in my edit, the only published source for this was the local 'balsham review' from circa 1968. The story of the highest hill in east anglia (terry pask) was broadcast live by the bbc radio circa 1970. On the point of published material Jim Daniels and his rural life was published in paperback to show the life of a farm worker. Kirkdale (talk) 12:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
    • If the "Balsham Review" is a publication that meets WP:RS you should add an appropriate citation; similarly for the paperback. You can add material from a radio broadcast if you can cite it appropriately. I think you have to have the exact broadcast date. 71.70.143.158 (talk) 22:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)