Talk:Street, Somerset

Village or town?

From the lead paragraph: "Street is a village... The town has a population of...". I think its a town, and http://www.mendip.gov.uk/visiting/ says "Mendip has five historic towns Frome, Glastonbury, Shepton Mallet, Street and Wells and many enchanting villages." which also suggests town. In the UK and particularly Somerset) the status as one or the other is not entirely logical so I haven't changed anything yet. Thryduulf 00:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed it to town a while back I hope that's ok. It is indeed a town. I used to live there up until 6 years ago. It has two swimming pools, a theatre, a college, a secondary school, used to have a cinema, over 200 shops etc. Everything a town would have and a population of over 10,000 which would be considered a quite a sizeable city in the US. It is also the 2nd largest town in the Mendip district of Somerset, bigger than the nearby city of Wells. I may be interested in expanding this article sometime. There is certainly more that can be said about the place and compared with the Glastonbury article, a nearby town it is rather short.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Technically, it is still a village, as it doesn't have a town hall. But it is quite a large village all the same.