Village Shepherd

Now that most of the population of the UK, even in rural areas like this, have access to private transport and society is multi-cultural, there's some discussion in the Church of England as to whether the parish system has had its day. At the moment, anyone living anywhere within the UK is resident in a parish, even though some of those parishes are very small and some have lost their parish church. But the trend now is for people to choose their church according to their worship needs, rather than necessarily attending their local, parish church.