Hi,
I've come late into this discussion late but the modern confusion about
boundaries, specifically both church parish boundaries and old village
boundaries which can sometimes cross into each others patches sounds
familiar.
I lived in a village 'S' on the western side which had a 12th century church which was responsible for the villagers and farmers in its parish. An hour's walk north of that village was another village 'H' which also had a 12th century church. It so happened that although I lived in 'S' my home was in the ancient church parish boundaries of 'H'. Both those church parishes sent their records to the Cathedral dioces market town of 'O' which was nearly a day's walk away.
In the 20th century the village I lived in collected all the civil records of who lived in the village houses for census purposes and taxes, but I don't know if this would be the case a century earlier.
Good luck,
Rena