Belvoir was a
rural district
Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...
in
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
,
England from 1894 to 1935.
It was formed under the
Local Government Act 1894 from the part of the
Grantham Rural Sanitary District that was in Leicestershire. It was a small district, named after the village of
Belvoir and contained nine parishes:
*
Barkestone
*
Belvoir
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Bottesford
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Croxton Kerrial
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Harston
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Knipton
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Muston
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Plungar
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Redmile.
Under the
County Review Orders of the 1930s it was merged with the
Melton Rural District to form the
Melton and Belvoir Rural District. The merger took effect in 1935.
References
*http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10136696
Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
History of Leicestershire
Rural districts of England
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