The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PARISH
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PARISH
- Administrative area identified by capital H?
- Capital H for church district
- District gets hard capital upfront
- . . . . as churchgoers in another start hostilities
- Church area making capital hot
- City Hall’s first administrative district
- District capital’s hospital
- Fairly average kind of district
- City hard to find in subdivision of diocese
- French city hotel in area known to clergyman
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The straight part
We know that "kind of district" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case kind of district = parish.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PARISH mean?
PARISH noun- In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
- The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
- An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
- A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
- An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
- To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
- To visit residents of a parish.
- To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
- To decay in such a way that it can't be used for its original purpose
- To die; to cease to live.
- To cause to perish.