Itchen was an
urban district
Urban district may refer to:
* District
* Urban area
* Quarter (urban subdivision)
* Neighbourhood
Specific subdivisions in some countries:
* Urban districts of Denmark
* Urban districts of Germany
* Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (hist ...
in
Hampshire
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,
England
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from 1898 to 1920.
It was formed in 1898 from the parishes of
St Mary Extra and
Sholing
Sholing, previously Scholing, is a district on the eastern side of the city of Southampton in Southern England. It is located between the districts of Bitterne, Thornhill and Woolston.
Various explanations from where the name derives b ...
(itself created in 1894 from part of the
Hound
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Description
Hounds can be contrasted with gun dogs that assist hunters by identifying prey and/or recovering shot quarry. The hound breeds were the first hunting dogs. T ...
parish). From 1894 to 1898 both these parishes had formed part of the
South Stoneham Rural District. A unified parish of Itchen, coterminous with the urban district was created in 1903. The urban district was abolished in 1920 and added to the county borough of
Southampton
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.
References
*https://web.archive.org/web/20071001001226/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10220830&c_id=10001043
Urban districts of England
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