Editing Neighbourhood (section)

====United Kingdom====
The term has no general official or statistical purpose in the United Kingdom, but is often used by local [[borough]]s for self-chosen sub-divisions of their area for the delivery of various services and functions, as for example in [[Kingston-upon-Thames]]<ref>[http://www.kingston.gov.uk/information/nhoodhome.htm What is the Neighbourhood system? The Leader of the Council Explains:...] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523033748/http://www.kingston.gov.uk/information/nhoodhome.htm |date=May 23, 2009 }}</ref> or is used as an informal term to refer to a small area within a town or city. The label is commonly used to refer to organisations which relate to such a very local structure, such as neighbourhood policing<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhoodpolicing.co.uk/|title=NHP|website=www.neighbourhoodpolicing.co.uk}}</ref> or [[Neighbourhood Watch (UK)|Neighbourhood watch]] schemes. In addition, government statistics for local areas are often referred to as neighbourhood statistics, although the data themselves are broken down usually into [[district]]s and [[Ward (politics)|wards]] for local purposes. In many parts of the UK wards are roughly equivalent to neighbourhoods or a combination of them.