Place:Depwade Rural, Norfolk, England

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NameDepwade Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates52.43°N 1.23°E
Located inNorfolk, England     (1894 - 1974)
See alsoSouth Norfolk District, Norfolk, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974

Depwade Rural District covered much of what today is the South Norfolk District of Norfolk. Its parishes were formerly in the Diss, Depwade, Earsham and Guiltcross Hundreds. Some parishes had been in Guiltcross Rural District until 1902 when it was abolished.

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Depwade 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 Depwade rural sanitary district, taking its name from the ancient Depwade Hundred. It lay to the east of Diss Urban District.

In 1902 it took in the eastern part of the disbanded Guiltcross Rural District, thus completely encircling Diss except where that town bordered on Suffolk.

Thereafter its borders were unchanged until 1974, when the district was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 and became part of the South Norfolk District. The Ordnance Survey Map of 1900 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time will assist in identifying the location of the individual parishes.

Parishes

ParishDescriptionDurationNotes
Alburgh parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Ashwellthorpe parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Aslacton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Billingford (near Scole) parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Scole in 1935
Bressingham parish (ancient), civil parish 1902 - 1974
Brockdish parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Bunwell parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Burston parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Carleton Rode parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Denton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Dickleburgh parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Earsham parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Fersfield civil parish 1902 - 1935 absorbed into Bressingham in 1935
Forncett civil parish 1935 - 1974
Forncett St. Mary parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974 absorbed into Forncett in 1935
Forncett St. Peter chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Forncett in 1935
Fritton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Morningthorpe in 1935
Fundenhall parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Ashwellthorpe in 1935
Gissing parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Hapton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Tharston in 1935
Hardwick parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Shelton in 1935
Hempnall parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Long Stratton civil parish 1935 - 1974
Morningthorpe parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Moulton St. Michael parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Needham chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1974
Pulham St. Mary the Virgin civil parish 1947 - 1974
Pulham St. Mary Magdalene chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1947
Redenhall with Harleston parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Roydon (near Diss) parish (ancient), civil parish 1902 - 1974
Rushall parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Dickleburgh in 1935
Scole parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Shelfanger parish (ancient), civil parish 1902 - 1974
Shelton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Shimpling parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Burston in 1935
Starston parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Stratton St. Mary parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Long Stratton in 1935
Stratton St. Michael parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Long Stratton in 1935
Tacolneston parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Tasburgh parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Tharston parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Thelveton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935
Thorpe Abbots parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into Brockdish in 1935
Tibenham parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Tivetshall St. Margaret parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Tivetshall St. Mary parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Wacton parish (ancient), civil parish 1894 - 1974
Winfarthing parish (ancient), civil parish 1902 - 1974
Wortwell hamlet, civil parish 1894 - 1974