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The Hamlet of Oakhurst iswas a small, autonomous region of [[Southshire]] which is currently owned and lead by [[Orinnari]].

Oakhurst was later declared autonomous by [[Orinnari]] on the 19th August 2017 when he retired from the Council for stress related reasons <ref>https://civwiki.org/wiki/Orinnari#Oakhurst's_creation</ref>. His goal was to create a loose facsimile to the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc City of London], cementing this by declared himself the "Lord Mayor of Oakhurst"<ref>https://civwiki.org/wiki/Orinnari#Oakhurst's_creation</ref>. Later, on 28th August 2017, [[Orinnari]] negotiated - with the help of [[Charlameme]] - the means to temporarily suspend Oakhurst's autonomy should he be successfully re-elected to the Council<ref>https://civwiki.org/wiki/Orinnari#Returning_to_Southshire</ref>. This however ended up not happening and the agreement was declaredbecame null and void.

After [[Orinnari]]'s defeat in the election, he impulsively declared Oakhurst a separate entity, a borough unto itself, believing it the only way he could exercise law-making ever again. This however inflamed recent hostilities from [[SamuelV]] who saw it as a slap in the face and began propagating harmful characterisations of [[Orinnari]]. This matched along with the casual disregard from others in the [[Commonwealth]] meant that progress in establishing Oakhurst was slow and fickle. On 18th September 2017, Oakhurst drew the ire of [[Dr_Oracle]], the owner of [[Southshire]]'s then branch of [[Empty Promises]], later citing misleading information from the Council after [[Orinnari]] sent him [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/oakhurst/oracle-essay/ an essay]<ref>https://civwiki.org/wiki/Orinnari#Oakhurst's_boroughification</ref>. However, after two additional weeks of casual hostility and disregard, particularly when [[Orinnari]] attempted to establish a short connection to [[Southshire]]'s rail station, he felt it would be best to relocate Oakhurst elsewhere. Oakhurst was dismantled and ceded back to [[Southshire]] on 30th September 2017. At first, Oakhurst was relocated to The Plantation, an area withinthat modernlater daybecame part of [[The Commonwealth#Arran|Arran]], but after facing difficulties with an abandoned yet largely reinforced area was relocated again to a small island to the north, nowthat known[[Orinnari]] asnamed Shen. Given the social and infrastructural isolation of Shen, this became a very inactive period for [[Orinnari]]. Oakhurst was implicitly dissolved around November 2017 when [[Orinnari]] [[Orinnari#Returning to Southshire, really this time!|returned to Southshire]].

On 7th June 2021, [[Orinnari]] visited [[Southshire]] after seeing [[RoboRik]]'s designs for a new factory building for [[Southshire]]'s [[:File:Downtown Southshire.png|downtown area]]. During this visit, [[cinzar]] invited [[Orinnari]] to build a house, but was later given permission by [[StrPlatinum]] to claim most of Oakhurst's old territory as private property. [[Cinzar]] insisted however that the [[Nymph]] Embassy ought to remain. However, [[Orinnari]] successfully negotiated the deed to the land in return for manually relocating the embassy and its items to the opposite side of the canal, effectively reclaiming all of Oakhurst's former territory as private property. [[StrPlatinum]] then spontaneously granted Oakhurst autonomy, returning it to its original form back in 2017.

Oakhurst iswas located on the south-eastern peninsular of [https://civwiki.org/wiki/Southshire#Cape_Southend Southend], consisting solely of roofed forest surrounded by river.