(see also Nottinghamshire Civil Parishes - names for unnamed areas)

It’s vital to have your UK civil parish area entered in the map if you want your house and/or locality to be easily found by the search & location aspects of OSM. However, many areas of the country are Unparished, and that includes 9 distinct areas in Nottinghamshire (12 towns). The Ordnance Survey have provided shape files for every parish, and that includes the Unparished parishes. However, each of the latter is unnamed. Before I did the research, none of the Nottinghamshire Unparished parishes were on the map. They are now!

Worksop is one of the last Unparished parishes waiting to be added to the map, and Unnamed_shape_5619 shows the boundary under JOSM. In contrast to all the others it seemed to be the easiest, as it needed the least editing. However, right at the end it threw a little wobbly.

Part of the northern edge of the 5619 boundary ran up Worksop Road (A57) then turned right along an unclassified road and Owday Lane. In contrast to all of the other 37km of the boundary, this little length along the unclassified + Owday Lane had no other boundary line already on it. That smelt all wrong.

A couple of hundred metres north of this unpopulated line was a way with a dozen or so boundaries in it, running parallel to Owday Lane through the middle of woods:-

1. Nottinghamshire (Ceremonial); (vice_county); (administrative admin_level=6 (County))
2. South Yorkshire (Ceremonial)
3. East Midlands (administrative admin_level=5 (Region))
4. Yorkshire and the Humber (administrative admin_level=5 (Region))
5. Bassetlaw (administrative admin_level=8 (District))
6. Rotherham (administrative admin_level=8 (Unitary_Authority))
7. North and South Anston CP (administrative admin_level=10 (Parish))
8. Woodsetts CP (administrative admin_level=10 (Parish))

The source for the way was supposed to be OS_OpenData_BoundaryLine but the two CPs were NPE and I smelt a rat. I downloaded Woodsetts CP.gpx + Nottinghamshire County.gpx in addition to the Unnamed shape 5619.gpx. As I thought, at this point all 3 GPX shared the same boundary. All those multiple BoundaryLines were supposed to run along Owday Lane, and the early reliance on NPE had led to a wrong placing.

In addition to re-routing those multiple boundaries at that place, I reset the very southern bit of Woodsetts CP. However, I did notice in the window that, in general, the entire current layout of Woodsetts bares only a passing resemblance to the OS GPX; it needs a complete repair. I suspect that the same may be true for North and South Anston CP and possibly for all other NPE-derived boundaries. I’ve decided to tackle fixing Woodsetts CP as well, but will write that up in a separate diary entry, once complete (it’s a mess at the moment).

And finally, here is the proof of the pudding.