Ecchinswell Residents vote to Change their Parish Name. Bishops Green village has grown in the last 40 years to be, by far, the largest settlement in the Parish of Ecchinswell and Sydmonton. For quite some time now the residents of Bishops Green have been asking the Parish Council to recognise this fact and include the name of Bishops Green in the Parish title. This re-naming was also in line with the Parish Council's and the Borough's aim of giving Bishops Green a higher and better profile. However, the Parish Council did not want to lose the name of "Sydmonton" as this name goes back to the Domesday Book and so it was decided that it should be kept in the title. In a recent Parish Poll, residents of Ecchinswell & Sydmonton Parish Council voted to change their Parish Name to include Bishops Green in the title. The new Parish Name will now be Ecchinswell, Sydmonton & Bishops Green Parish Council. Here is the result of the vote, which was carried out by the Electoral Reform Services. you will see that almost 44% of Parish residents voted, which was a fairly high return. --- John Lewis <jayellatntlworlddotcom> from Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. using Debian GNU/Linux and GeneWeb genealogy software