Cosford Rural District was a
rural district in the
county
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of
West Suffolk,
England
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. It was created in 1894 out of the earlier Cosford
rural sanitary district
Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1872 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures:
*Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies
*Rural sanitary dis ...
, except for
Hadleigh parish which was made a separate
urban district
Urban district may refer to:
* District
* Urban area
* Quarter (urban subdivision)
* Neighbourhood
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* Urban districts of Denmark
* Urban districts of Germany
* Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (hist ...
. Only minor adjustments were made to its boundary in the reorganisation of 1935.
It was named after the historic
hundred
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In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ...
of
Cosford, although the rural district covered a significantly larger area that included most of Cosford hundred (with the notable exception of Hadleigh) and part of the neighbouring hundred of
Babergh.
Since 1 April 1974 it has formed part of the local government district of
Babergh.
Parishes
Cosford RD contained the parishes of
Statistics
References
History of Suffolk
Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972
Rural districts of England
{{Former local government areas in Suffolk