Chelmsford Rural District
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "infobox".Template:Wikidata imageScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Chelmsford Rural District was a local government district in Essex, England from 1894 to 1974. It surrounded, but did not include, the town of Chelmsford;[1] which formed a municipal borough.
It was formed as a rural district in 1894, based on the Chelmsford rural sanitary district.[2] It included the parishes of:
- Boreham
- Broomfield
- Buttsbury
- Chignal St James
- Danbury
- East Hanningfield
- Good Easter
- Great Baddow
- Great Leighs
- Great Waltham
- Highwood
- Ingatestone and Fryerning
- Little Baddow
- Little Leighs
- Little Waltham
- Margaretting
- Mashbury
- Pleshey
- Rettendon
- Roxwell
- Runwell
- Sandon
- South Hanningfield
- Springfield
- Stock
- West Hanningfield
- Widford
- Woodham Ferrers
- Writtle
During 1934 there were some changes to the district boundary.[1] The municipal borough of Chelmsford expanded and gained Script error: No such module "convert". from the rural district, including parts of the parishes of Broomfield, Springfield, Widford, and Writtle. At the same time Script error: No such module "convert". were transferred from Buttsbury parish to form part of Billericay Urban District. Later that year, an area of Script error: No such module "convert"., made up of Mountnessing and parts of the parishes of Downham, Ramsden Bellhouse, Ramsden Crays and Shenfield, was gained from the abolished Billericay Rural District. Also at this time Script error: No such module "convert". was gained from the parish of Hockley in Rochford Rural District.
The district was abolished in 1974 and its former area was merged with the municipal borough of Chelmsford to form the current non-metropolitan district of Chelmsford, which inherited the borough charter. The parishes of Ingatestone and Fryerning and Mountnessing became part of the district of Brentwood. The former council offices in New London Road are now used as a Jobcentre Plus.
References
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- ↑ a b Vision of Britain – Chelmsford RD Script error: No such module "Unsubst". (historic map Script error: No such module "Unsubst".)
- ↑ Vision of Britain – Chelmsford RSD (historic map Script error: No such module "Unsubst".)
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Further reading
- Pike, E., Chelmsford Rural District, Essex; Official Guide, (1971). Template:ISBN.
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