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Cosford Rural District existed in the historic county of Suffolk and the administrative county of West Suffolk from 1894 until 1974. East and West Suffolk ceased to exist as of 1 April 1974 and Suffolk is now the administrative county as it was before 1888. The area covered by Cosford Rural District is now part of the Babergh District.
There were few changes to Cosford Rural District's borders in 1934-35. No complete parishes were moved into or out of the district, but the parishes of Nedging and Naughton united to become the civil parish of Nedging with Naughton. Hadleigh left the rural district when it became an urban district in 1896.
Parishes
The following parishes made up the Cosford Rural District:
Research Tips
- A map of Suffolk from 1900 provided online by A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography) can be enlarged to view individual parishes. Careful inspection will usually lead to the discovery of smaller hamlets founded before 1900. The rural districts (marked with their names printed in blue) are those in existence in 1900, not those introduced in 1934. The more ancient hundreds are marked in red. Most (but not all) parish names are underlined in red.
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