Sudbury 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rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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 ...

of Derbyshire in England from 1894 to 1934. It was created from the part of the

Uttoxeter Uttoxeter ( , ) is a market town in the East Staffordshire district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is near to the Derbyshire county border. It is situated from Burton upon Trent, from Stafford, from Stoke-on-Trent, from De ...

rural sanitary district that was in Derbyshire (with the larger part in

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

forming the Uttoxeter Rural District). It consisted of the parishes of Boyleston, Cubley,

Doveridge Doveridge is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, United Kingdom, near the border with Staffordshire and about east of Uttoxeter. Its name may come from its having a bridge over the river Dove (i.e. Dove(B)ridge), a tributary of the River ...

Marston Montgomery Marston Montgomery is a small village and civil parish in western Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was at least 3. It is four miles from the town of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. The Church of Saint Giles dates ba ...

Norbury and Roston Norbury with Roston is a civil parish in west Derbyshire incorporating the villages of Norbury and Roston. See also *Listed buildings in Norbury and Roston Norbury and Roston is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire ...

Somersal Herbert Somersal Herbert is a hamlet and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, 2 miles northeast of Doveridge. Somersal Herbert Hall was built c.1564, incorporating an earlier building from c.1500, and is a Grade I listed building. Hill Somersal and Potte ...

and

Sudbury Sudbury may refer to: Places Australia * Sudbury Reef, Queensland Canada * Greater Sudbury, Ontario (official name; the city continues to be known simply as Sudbury for most purposes) ** Sudbury (electoral district), one of the city's federal e ...

. It was abolished in 1934 under a

County Review Order The Local Government Act 1929 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made changes to the Poor Law and local government in England and Wales. The Act abolished the system of poor law unions in England and Wales and their boar ...

, and its area transferred to Ashbourne Rural District.

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20071001002350/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10144140 Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 History of Derbyshire Rural districts of England {{derbyshire-geo-stub