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A parish is a church territorial unit constituting a division within a diocese . A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction ___MASK32___ a parish priest , who might be assisted by one or more curates , and who operates from a parish church . Historically , a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor ( its association with the parish church remaining paramount ). Highnam is a village and civil parish on the outskirts ___MASK32___ the city ___MASK32___ Gloucester . It is three miles northwest ___MASK32___ the city on the A40 , on its way to Ross , west ___MASK32___ Alney Island and Over Bridge . The parish includes the villages ___MASK32___ Lassington and Over . In the 2001 census the parish had a population ___MASK32___ 2 , 014 , reducing to 1 , 916 at the 2011 census . Highnam was originally made up ___MASK32___ farm land , which explains some ___MASK32___ its street names ( Brimsome Meadow , Poppy Field , Stoney Field , Long Field , Peters Field , Williams Orchard , et al . ) . As a village , Highnam is fairly small , containing a few social amenities . Its contents include the Church ___MASK32___ the Holy Innocents , a school ( Highnam C ___MASK32___ E Primary ) , a village hall , a day nursery , a village shop and a doctor ' s surgery . The Arnold family were Lords ___MASK32___ the Manor in the sixteenth century - the best known member ___MASK32___ the family is Sir Nicholas Arnold ( died 1580 ) , Lord Deputy ___MASK32___ Ireland . The wealthy artist and collector Thomas Gambier Parry purchased the Highnam Court estate in 1837 . He remodelled the Court and laid out the Highnam Court gardens ; he was one ___MASK32___ the first to make a pinetum . Highnam Court gardens are now open to the public . His son , the composer Hubert Parry , learnt to play the organ in the church . Highnam has an eighteen hole golf course and a large business park just outside the main village . Aside from buildings , it is home to both football and cricket teams Highnam Court Cricket Club and also Beavers , Cubs , Scouts and Brownies groups . A new feature in 2007 was the addition ___MASK32___ a Youth Café . Highnam Woods to the west ___MASK32___ the village are managed by the RSPB as a nature reserve , and Lassington Woods are to the east ___MASK32___ the village . Over Bridge , also known as ___MASK22___ ' s Bridge , is a single span stone arch bridge spanning the canalised West Channel ___MASK32___ the River Severn near Gloucester . It links Over to Alney Island . ___MASK89___ (; abbreviated Glos .) is a county in South West England . The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills , part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn , and the entire Forest of Dean . Local nature reserve or LNR is a designation for nature reserves in Great Britain . The designation has its origin in the recommendations ___MASK32___ the Wild Life Conservation Special Committee which established the framework for nature conservation in the United Kingdom and suggested a national suite ___MASK32___ protected areas comprising national nature reserves , conservation areas ( which incorporated suggestions for Sites ___MASK32___ Special Scientific Interest ), national parks , geological monuments , local nature reserves and local educational nature reserves . ___MASK97___ is a country that is part ___MASK32___ the United Kingdom . It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west . The Irish Sea lies northwest ___MASK32___ ___MASK97___ and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest . ___MASK97___ is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five - eighths ___MASK32___ the island ___MASK32___ Great Britain ( which lies in the North Atlantic ) in its centre and south ; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles ___MASK32___ Scilly , and the Isle ___MASK32___ Wight . A unitary authority is a type ___MASK32___ local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level ___MASK32___ sub - national government . In ___MASK97___ , a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier ___MASK32___ local government below districts and counties , or their combined form , the unitary authority . It is an administrative parish , in contrast to an ecclesiastical parish . The ___MASK4___ ___MASK32___ Dean is a geographical , historical and cultural region in the western part ___MASK32___ the county ___MASK32___ ___MASK89___ , England . It forms a roughly triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and north - west , Herefordshire to the north , the River Severn to the south , and the City ___MASK32___ Gloucester to the east . ___MASK23___ is a city and ___MASK91___ in ___MASK1___ England , the county city ___MASK32___ ___MASK89___ . ___MASK23___ lies close to the Welsh border , on the River Severn , between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest ___MASK32___ Dean to the ___MASK1___ . An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch . Arch bridges work by transferring the weight ___MASK32___ the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side . A viaduct ( a long bridge ) may be made from a series ___MASK32___ arches , although other more economical structures are typically used today . The ___MASK34___ Severn ( Welsh : " Afon Hafren ", Latin : " Sabrina ") is the longest ___MASK34___ in the ___MASK66___ , at about . It rises at an altitude ___MASK32___ on Plynlimon , close to the Ceredigion / Powys border near Llanidloes , in the Cambrian Mountains ___MASK32___ mid Wales . It then flows through Shropshire , Worcestershire and ___MASK89___ , with the county towns ___MASK32___ Shrewsbury , Worcester and Gloucester on its banks . With an average discharge ___MASK32___ at Apperley , ___MASK89___ , the Severn is the greatest ___MASK34___ in terms ___MASK32___ water flow in England and Wales . Alney Island is an island in the ___MASK34___ Severn near ___MASK23___ . The Severn splits into two channels ( known as East Channel and West Channel ) at Upper Parting ( the northernmost tip ___MASK32___ Alney ), and merges again at " Lower Parting " to the south . The island is a strip ___MASK32___ land in between the two channels , about 2 . 1 mi or 3 . 5 km long ( roughly north - to - south ) and 0 . 74 mi or 1 . 2 km wide at its widest ( east - to - west ). It is a local Nature Reserve . An island or isle is any piece ___MASK32___ sub - continental land that is surrounded by water . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait , and a small island off the coast may be called a holm . A grouping ___MASK32___ geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the ___MASK78___ . The Cotswolds is an area in ___MASK96___ central England containing the ___MASK67___ Hills , a range ___MASK32___ rolling hills which rise from the meadows ___MASK32___ the upper Thames to an escarpment , known as the ___MASK67___ Edge , above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale . The area is defined by the bedrock ___MASK32___ Jurassic limestone that creates a type ___MASK32___ grassland habitat rare in the UK and that is quarried for the golden coloured ___MASK67___ stone . It contains unique features derived from the use ___MASK32___ this mineral ; the predominantly rural landscape contains stone - built villages , historical towns and stately homes and gardens .