The hamlet Weiler Oberwil inWaldkirch, Switzerland
Ahamlet is ahuman settlement that is smaller than atown orvillage.[1][2] This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement.[citation needed] Sometimes, a hamlet is defined for official oradministrative purposes.[citation needed]
The word and concept of a hamlet can be traced back toNorman England, where the Old Frenchhamelet came to apply to small human settlements.
InAfghanistan, the word "hamlet" may be used to translate the term "qala" (Dari: قلعه,Pashto: کلي).[4] The Afghanqala is a fortified group of houses, generally with a community building such as a mosque but without a marketplace. The qala is the smallest type of settlement in Afghan society, outsized by the village (Dari/Pashto: ده), which is larger and includes a commercial area.
Canada's two largest hamlets—Fort McMurray (formerly incorporated as a city)[11] andSherwood Park—are located in Alberta. They each have populations, within their main urban area, over 60,000—well over the 10,000-person threshold that can choose toincorporate as a city in Alberta.[12][13] As such, these two hamlets have been further designated by the Province of Alberta asurban service areas.[14] An urban service area is recognized as equivalent to a city for provincial and federal program delivery and grant eligibility.[15][16]
A hamlet (French:hameau) is a group of rural dwellings, usually too small to be considered a village. The termLieu-dit is also applied to hamlets but it can also refer to uninhabited localities.
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The word "hamlet" may be used to translate the termWeiler (German:[ˈva͡ɪlɐ]).[citation needed] Compared to aDorf (village), aWeiler [de] has no infrastructure (i.e. no inn, no school, no store, no church). The houses and farms of aWeiler can be grouped (in the hills and the mountains) or scattered (more often in the plains). In North West Germany, a group of scattered farms is calledBauerschaft. In a Weiler, there are no street names, the houses are just numbered.
There is no legal definition of a Weiler in Germany. In Bavaria, like in Austria, a Weiler is defined as a settlement with 3 to 9 dwellings, from 10 houses it is called a village.[citation needed]
InItaly, the term ‘frazione’ refers to a portion of inhabited territory within a municipality (the lowest level of subdivision, the "Comune"), generally located some distance from the centre of the town or village but still within the municipality's territory. In practice, if a village or town can be divided into neighbourhoods, i.e. portions of the same inhabited centre, the hamlets are located at a certain distance, creating a detached urban group. In many cases, some hamlets may have once been municipalities. Hamlets are always indicated by a sign, but they have no administrative function (at most, they may be polling stations). Small groups of houses that do not form a town and are further detached are called "località" (localites). We mention two examples in theLiguria Region: the coastal municipality ofCamogli consists of the town centre and the hamlets of Ruta (a former Napoleonic municipality) and San Rocco. In turn, there are localities such as Boschetto, Case Rosse, Mortola, Porto Pidocchio and San Fruttuoso di Capodimonte, which are well separated but fall within the three main localities for all aspects of daily life. The municipality ofLumarzo, on the other hand, is known as a “scattered municipality” because it is made up of numerous separate centres without a main one, such as Lagomarsino, Pannesi, Boasi and Tasso, with numerous localities. For example, there are Tassorello, Tasso Alto, Sotto Tasso...
In different states ofIndia, there are different words for hamlet. InHaryana andRajasthan, it is called"dhani" (Hindi:ढाणीḍhāṇī) or"Thok".[17][18][19][20] InGujarat, a hamlet is called a"nesada", which are more prevalent in theGir forest. InMaharashtra, it is called a"pada". In southern Bihar, especially in theMagadh division, a hamlet is called a"bigha". In the state ofKarnataka, a hamlet is known by different names likePalya,Hadi (Haadi),Keri, andPadi (Paadi). In the olden days, the human population of hamlet was less thanHalli (Village) orOoru (Uru). But in the 20th century with the tremendous increase in population, some of these hamlets became villages, towns and cities or merged with them.
All overIndonesia, hamlets are translated as "small village",desa orkampung. They are known asdusun in Central Java and East Java,banjar in Bali,jorong orkampuang inWest Sumatra.[citation needed]
The Dutch words for hamlet aregehucht orbuurtschap. Agehucht orbuurtschap has, compared to adorp (village), no infrastructure (i.e. no inn, no school, no store) and contains often only one street, bearing the same name. The houses and farms of agehucht or abuurtschap can be scattered. Though there are strong similarities between agehucht andbuurtschap, the words are not interchangeable. Agehucht officially counts as an independent place of residence (e.g.Wateren), while abuurtschap officially is a part of another place (e.g.Bartlehiem, part ofWyns).
In Pakistan, a hamlet is called agaaon گاؤں ormauza موضع inUrdu,giraaan گراں orpind پنڈ inPunjabi, andkalay کلې inPashto. It is almost synonymous with 'village'.
In Poland, the law recognises several different kinds ofrural settlements.Przysiółek (which can be translated as "hamlet") refers to a cluster of farms.Osada (which is typically translated as "settlement" but also can be translated as "hamlet") includes smaller settlements especially differing by type of buildings or inhabited by population connected with some place or workplace (like mill settlements, forest settlements, fishing settlements, railway settlements, formerState Agricultural Farm settlements). They can be an independent settlement, or a part of another settlement, like a village.[21]
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InRomania, hamlets are calledcătune (singular:cătun), and they represent villages that contain several houses at most. They are legally considered villages, and statistically, they are placed in the same category. Like villages, they do not have a separate administration, and thus are not an administrative division, but are part of a parentcommune.
InSpain, a hamlet is calledlugar,aldea orcortijada (Spanish:[koɾtiˈxaða]). The word comes from theSpanish termcortijo («estate»). In the South of Spain, the termcaserío (Spanish:[kaseˈɾi.o]) is also used for designating small groups of rural dwellings or farmhouses.
A hamlet in Spain is a human settlement, usually located in rural areas, and typically smaller in size and population than avillage (called in Spain,puebloSpanish:[ˈpweβlo]). The hamlet is a common territorial organisation in the North West of Spain (Asturias,Cantabria andGalicia) dependent on a larger entity (e.g.parish ormunicipality).
In Spain, the hamlet is one of the categories in the officialgazetteer of population entities. In the Royal Order and Instruction of the 8 of March 1930,[22] issued for the elaboration of the Annual gazetteer, the hamlet (aldea) is defined as the population entity with the smallest population and neighbourhood, usually more disseminated than thelugar, though its buildings can be also organised in streets and plazas.
In the four national languages, hamlets are known asWeiler (German),hameaux (French),frazioni (Italian) andfracziun (Romansh). A hamlet is always part of a largermunicipality or may be shared between two municipalities. The difference between a hamlet and a village is that typically a hamlet lacks a compact core settlement and lacks a central building such as a church or inn. However, some hamlets (Kirchwiler) may have grown up as an unplanned settlement around a church.[23] No population limit defines a hamlet and some hamlets have a larger population than some of the smallest municipalities. Generally, there are no street names in a hamlet; rather, addresses are given by hamlet name and a number. House numbers might start at one side of the hamlet and continue to the other side or may have no clear organization.
A hamlet may form or have formed aBürgergemeinde (legal place of citizenship regardless of where a person was born or currently lives) and may own common property for theBürgergemeinde.
InEngland, the wordhamlet (having the French origin given at the top of this article) means (in current usage) simply a small settlement, maybe of a few houses or farms, smaller than a village. However, traditionally and legally, it means a village or a town without a church,[24] although hamlets are recognised as part ofland use planning policies and administration. Historically, it may refer to a secondary settlement in acivil parish, after the main settlement (if any); such an example is the hamlet ofChipping which is the secondary settlement within the civil parish ofBuckland. Hamlets may have been formed around a single source of economic activity such as a farm, mill, mine or harbour that employed its working population. Some hamlets may be the result of thedepopulation of a village; examples of such a hamlet areGraby andShapwick. Because of the hillytopography of the parish, the village ofClent, situated on theClent Hills, consists of five distinct hamlets.
InNorthern Ireland, the common Irish place name elementbaile is sometimes considered equivalent to the termhamlet in English,baile would actually have referred to what is known in English today as atownland: that is to say, a geographical locality rather than a small village.
In theScottish Highlands, the termclachan, of Gaelic derivation, may be preferred to the termhamlet.[25] Also found inScotland more generally isferm toun, used in the specific case of a farm settlement, including outbuildings and agricultural workers' homes.[26][27]
The term hamlet was used inWales to denote a geographical subdivision of a parish (which might or might not contain a settlement). Elsewhere, mostly in England, these subdivisions were called "townships" or "tithings".[28][29] TheWelsh word for "hamlet" ispentrefan[30] (alsopentrefyn). Both these words are diminutives ofpentref ("village") with the loose meaning of "small village".
InMississippi, a 2009 state law (§ 17-27-5) set aside the term "municipal historical hamlet" to designate any former city, town, or village with a current population of less than 600 inhabitants that lost its charter before 1945. The first such designation was applied toBogue Chitto, Lincoln County.
In New York, hamlets areunincorporated settlements withintowns. Hamlets are not legal entities and have no local government or official boundaries. Their approximate locations will often be noted on road signs, however, a specific service, such as water, sewer, or lighting provides only that hamlet with services. A hamlet could be described as the rural or suburban equivalent of a neighborhood in a city or village. The area of a hamlet may not be exactly defined; it may bedesignated by the Census Bureau, or it may rely on some other form of border (such as aZIP Code, school district or fire district for more urbanized areas; rural hamlets are typically only demarcated byspeed zones on the roads serving them). Others, such asForestville, New York, will be the remnants of former villages, with borders coextant with the previously defined borders of the defunct or dissolved village. Some hamlets proximate to urban areas are sometimes continuous with their cities and appear to be neighborhoods, but they still are under the jurisdiction of the town. Some localities designated as hamlets, such asLevittown in theTown of Hempstead, with a population of over 50,000, are more populous than some incorporated cities in the state.
InOregon, specifically inClackamas County, a hamlet is a form of local government for small communities that allows the citizens therein to organize and coordinate community activities. Hamlets do not provide services, such as utilities or fire protection, and do not have the authority to levytaxes or fees. There are four hamlets in Oregon:Beavercreek,Mulino,Molalla Prairie, andStafford.
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