Chesterton Rural District

52°13′05″N 0°08′56″E / 52.218°N 0.149°E / 52.218; 0.149 Chesterton was a rural district in Cambridgeshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

Position within Isle of Ely
Position within Isle of Ely

Boundaries in 1894
Position within Isle of Ely
Position within Isle of Ely

Boundaries in 1934

It was formed in 1894 as a successor to the Chesterton rural sanitary district. In 1934, under a County Review Order, its boundaries were altered, taking in the disbanded Swavesey Rural District and part of the disbanded Caxton and Arrington Rural District. It also ceded an area to the borough of Cambridge.

In 1965 it became part of the new administrative county of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely.

The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and merged with the South Cambridgeshire Rural District to form a new South Cambridgeshire district.

Parishes

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Parish From To Notes
Bar Hill
Barton
Bourn 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Boxworth 1934 Previously Swavesey RD
Caldecote 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Caxton 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Cherry Hinton 1934 Taken into Cambridge MB
Childerley
Comberton
Conington 1934 Previously Swavesey RD
Coton
Cottenham
Croxton 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Dry Drayton
Elsworth 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Eltisley 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Fen Ditton
Fen Drayton 1934 Previously Swavesey RD
Fulbourn
Girton
Grantchester
Graveley 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Great Shelford
Great Wilbraham
Hardwick 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Harlton
Harston
Haslingfield
Hauxton
Histon
Horningsea
Impington
Knapwell 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Landbeach
Little Shelford
Little Wilbraham
Lolworth 1934 Previously Swavesey RD
Longstanton 1953 Merger of the following 2 parishes:
Longstanton All Saints 1953
Longstanton St Michael 1953
Madingley
Milton
Newton
Oakington
Over 1934 Previously Swavesey RD
Papworth Everard 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Papworth St Agnes 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Rampton
Stapleford
Stow cum Quy
Swavesey 1934 Previously Swavesey RD
Teversham
Toft 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Trumpington 1934 Mostly taken into Cambridge MB
Waterbeach
Westwick
Willingham

References

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