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District Parishes, ecclesiastical divisions of parishes for all purposes of worship, and for celebration of marriage, baptisms, churchings, and burials formed at the instance of the Royal Commissioners for Building New Churches, and regulated by the (English) New Parishes Acts, 1843 and 1844 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 37, and 7 & 8 Vict. c. 94).