What name is given to any of the six administrative districts of the Isle of Man?
Local government in the Isle of Man Local government in the Isle of Man Local government () in the Isle of Man was formerly based on six sheadings, which were divided into seventeen parishes (today referred to as "ancient parishes"). The island is today divided for local government purposes into town districts, village districts, and parish districts, as follows: The Isle of Man was historically divided into six sheadings: in the traditional clockwise order, they are Glenfaba, Michael, Ayre, Garff, Middle, and Rushen. The sheadings are now significant only as: The Coroners are responsible for process-serving and enforcement of judgments, not for holding inquests of death; that
The Story of the Isle of Man The Story of the Isle of Man The Story of the Isle of Man is a 1901 book on the history of the Isle of Man by A.W. Moore. It was written as an introduction to Manx history, specifically for children. The book was written at a time of a growing sense of Manx national identity, greatly due to the work of A. W. Moore himself. For want of any existing rigorous and sustained history of the Isle of Man, he wrote "A History of the Isle of Man", which was published in 1900 in two volumes (reaching 989 pages).