South Caradon Mine situated just over the parish border was at one time the largest and most prosperous copper mine in the world.

These complex parish borders were those of just one manor carved out before the Norman conquest from Hillingdon.

Most of the river, at this point, forms a parish border between the parishes of Greetland and Stainland.

A hamlet within the parish border of Great Horwood is Singleborough.

The parish borders Northamptonshire on its west.

There should be a clear green belt or open fields, as, for example, seen on aerial maps for Ouston surrounding its parish borders.

To the east the parish borders Oxfordshire.

The town has grown rapidly and its northern part now crosses the old parish border and extends into the parish of Birkende.

Although today, Bradley's parish borders the parish of Bentworth.

The parish borders West Yorkshire to the south.