Talk:Greensted

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I have changed the word 'village' to hamlet. Does anyone mind? I hope not.

The case for 'hamlet': The nearest pub closed down many years ago. There are no shops (and the shop in nearby Toot Hill closed down many years ago). For my money, if Greensted was ever a village, it no longer justifies the moniker. Indeed, it is probably on account of the smallness of the place that the church endured, while citizens of more populous settlements replaced their old churches with 'posh stone numbers' during the sheep / cloth boom of the late Medieval period and / or during the industrialisation driven boom of the nineteenth century (when indeed Greensted's own church benefitted from a level of 'restoration' that wise ones from subsequent generations have deemed of dubious merit).

Also the adverb 'commonly' turned up three times. I have replaced two of the three simply because I found it repetitive. I hope whoever put it there doesn't mind: if you do, put it back!

While in pedantic mode, I'm not sure that Greensted's status as the oldest wooden church in the world is unchallenged, for instance in Norway.... The discrete use in this context of the word 'commonly' seems to me abundantly appropriate, therefore, but I changed the caption appearing under the picture. I also see that I replaced the picture because the old one was automatically removed by a censoring-robot that objected to the copyright attribution that had been given it. But I make no claim of superiority for 'my' picture. Please do feel free to put back yours, espcially if you have time and patience to navigate Wikipedia's copyright declaration requirements (or else to keep on putting it back every week or so...).

Charles01 12:51, 1 February 2007 (UTC)