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]

ParishFromToNotes
Abington PigottsPreviously Melbourn RD
ArringtonPreviously Caxton and Arrington RD
BabrahamPreviously Linton RD
BalshamPreviously Linton RD
BarringtonPreviously Melbourn RD
BartlowPreviously Linton RD
Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth1966Merger of Bassingbourn & Kneesworth
Bassingbourn1966Previously Melbourn RD
CarltonPreviously Linton RD
Castle CampsPreviously Linton RD
CroydonPreviously Caxton and Arrington RD
DuxfordPreviously Linton RD
East Hatley1957Previously Caxton and Arrington RD.
See Hatley
FowlmerePreviously Melbourn RD
FoxtonPreviously Melbourn RD
GamlingayPreviously Caxton and Arrington RD
Great AbingtonPreviously Linton RD
Great and Little Chishill1968Merger of Great Chishill & Little Chishill
Great Chishill1968Previously Melbourn RD
Great EversdenPreviously Caxton and Arrington RD
Guilden MordenPreviously Melbourn RD
Hatley1957Merger of East Hatley, Hatley St George
and other parts
Hatley St George1957Previously Caxton and Arrington RD
HeydonPreviously Melbourn RD
HildershamPreviously Linton RD
HinxtonPreviously Linton RD
HorseheathPreviously Linton RD
IckletonPreviously Linton RD
KingstonPreviously Caxton and Arrington RD
Kneesworth1966Previously Melbourn RD.
See Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth
LintonPreviously Linton RD
LitlingtonPreviously Melbourn RD
Little AbingtonPreviously Linton RD
Little Chishill1968Previously Melbourn RD
Little EversdenPreviously Caxton and Arrington RD
Little GransdenPreviously Caxton and Arrington RD
LongstowePreviously Caxton and Arrington RD
MelbournPreviously Melbourn RD
MeldrethPreviously Melbourn RD
OrwellPreviously Caxton and Arrington RD
PampisfordPreviously Linton RD
SawstonPreviously Linton RD
SheprethPreviously Melbourn RD
Shingay cum Wendy1957Merger of Shingay & Wendy
Shingay1957Previously Melbourn RD
Shudy CampsPreviously Linton RD
Steeple MordenPreviously Melbourn RD
TadlowPreviously Caxton and Arrington RD
ThriplowPreviously Melbourn RD
Wendy1957Previously Melbourn RD.
See Shingay cum Wendy
West WickhamPreviously Linton RD
West WrattingPreviously Linton RD
Weston ColvillePreviously Linton RD
WhaddonPreviously Melbourn RD
WhittlesfordPreviously Linton RD
WimpolePreviously 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.
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