Mildenhall Rural District was a rural district in the

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

of West Suffolk,

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. It was created in 1894 out of the former Mildenhall

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 ...

. In 1935 it was expanded by taking in parts of the disbanded

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and

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RDs. Since 1 April 1974 it has formed part of the local government district of

Forest Heath Forest Heath was a local government district in Suffolk, England. Its council was based in Mildenhall. Other towns in the district included Newmarket. The population of the district at the 2011 Census was 59,748. The district's name reflec ...

and then from 1st April 2019 West Suffolk District.

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