King's Lynn Rural District was a
rural district in
Norfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
from 1894 to 1935. It was situated on the west bank of the
River Great Ouse, opposite the town of
King's Lynn, and comprised the then single
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
of
West Lynn.
The district was split in 1935 with the urban part becoming part of the borough of King's Lynn, and the rest becoming part of
Marshland Rural District
Marshland Rural District was a rural district in Norfolk, England from 1894 to 1974.
It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Marshland rural sanitary district, and was named after the Freebridge Marshland hundred. It co ...
. Today the area covered by the old rural district is within the
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
of
King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
References
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070930225953/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10092474&c_id=10001043
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Historical districts of Norfolk
Local government in Norfolk
Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
Rural districts of England