South Cambridgeshire Rural District

Position within Cambridgeshire

52°05′46″N 0°05′13″E / 52.096°N 0.087°E / 52.096; 0.087 South Cambridgeshire was a rural district in Cambridgeshire, England[1] established in 1934 under a County Review Order as a merger of Linton Rural District and Melbourn Rural District[2] and part of Caxton and Arrington Rural District.[3] In 1965 it became part of the new administrative county of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and merged with the Chesterton Rural District to form a new South Cambridgeshire district.[4]

Parishes[5]

Parish From To Notes
Abington Pigotts Previously Melbourn RD
Arrington Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Babraham Previously Linton RD
Balsham Previously Linton RD
Barrington Previously Melbourn RD
Bartlow Previously Linton RD
Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth 1966 Merger of Bassingbourn & Kneesworth
Bassingbourn 1966 Previously Melbourn RD
Carlton Previously Linton RD
Castle Camps Previously Linton RD
Croydon Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Duxford Previously Linton RD
East Hatley 1957 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD.
See Hatley
Fowlmere Previously Melbourn RD
Foxton Previously Melbourn RD
Gamlingay Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Great Abington Previously Linton RD
Great and Little Chishill 1968 Merger of Great Chishill & Little Chishill
Great Chishill 1968 Previously Melbourn RD
Great Eversden Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Guilden Morden Previously Melbourn RD
Hatley 1957 Merger of East Hatley, Hatley St George
and other parts
Hatley St George 1957 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Heydon Previously Melbourn RD
Hildersham Previously Linton RD
Hinxton Previously Linton RD
Horseheath Previously Linton RD
Ickleton Previously Linton RD
Kingston Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Kneesworth 1966 Previously Melbourn RD.
See Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth
Linton Previously Linton RD
Litlington Previously Melbourn RD
Little Abington Previously Linton RD
Little Chishill 1968 Previously Melbourn RD
Little Eversden Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Little Gransden Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Longstowe Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Melbourn Previously Melbourn RD
Meldreth Previously Melbourn RD
Orwell Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Pampisford Previously Linton RD
Sawston Previously Linton RD
Shepreth Previously Melbourn RD
Shingay cum Wendy 1957 Merger of Shingay & Wendy
Shingay 1957 Previously Melbourn RD
Shudy Camps Previously Linton RD
Steeple Morden Previously Melbourn RD
Tadlow Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
Thriplow Previously Melbourn RD
Wendy 1957 Previously Melbourn RD.
See Shingay cum Wendy
West Wickham Previously Linton RD
West Wratting Previously Linton RD
Weston Colville Previously Linton RD
Whaddon Previously Melbourn RD
Whittlesford Previously Linton RD
Wimpole Previously Caxton and Arrington RD

References

  1. ^ "Home". South Cambs District Council. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  2. ^ "Local Plan Village Classification Report" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Caxton through time". visionofbritain.
  4. ^ "Cambridgeshire Registration District". www.ukbmd.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  5. ^ "South Cambridgeshire RD through time; Census tables with data for the Local Government District". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 10 June 2017.