Territorial Societies.

[Mike Chester]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "alanaj8283" <aaj.buswell at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I wonder if I might write on a subject I know nothing about? It is 
> the nameing of our territorial societies. Why are some societies 
> called 'associations', 'districts', 'guilds' and 'societies? 

As a generalisation, groupings based on Diocesan lines tend to be 
called Guilds and those on counties Associations.  Districts tend to be 
based around a major town and cover only part of a county, some being 
called a "Society".  Societies tend to be, but are not exclusively, 
(e.g. Doncaster and District Society) neither based on either church or 
county boundaries.

Mike