Place:Pebworth Rural, Gloucestershire, England

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Pebworth Rural District was, from 1894 to 1931, a rural district in the administrative county of Gloucestershire, England. The district consisted of four parts, divided from each other by a section of Worcestershire.

Formation

The rural district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of Evesham Rural Sanitary District in Gloucestershire. (Part of the act stated that rural district councils should only cover an area within one county.) The remainder of Evesham RSD became Evesham Rural District in Worcestershire. The rural district was governed by a directly elected rural district council (RDC), which replaced the rural sanitary authority that had comprised the poor law guardians for the area. Pebworth Rural District Council continued to hold its meetings in the offices of Evesham Poor Law Union, outside its district.

Boundaries and constituent parishes

The district consisted of ten parishes in four distinct parts:

1. To the north: Pebworth

2. To the east: Aston Subedge, Cow Honeybourne, Saintbury, Weston Subedge and Willersey

3. To the south: Aston Somerville, Childs Wickham, Hinton on the Green

4. To the south west: Ashton under Hill

Abolition

Following the coming into force of the Local Government Act 1929, county councils gained the power to adjust boundaries by negotiation, subject to ministerial approval. Following a public inquiry in Cheltenham, a scheme was set up to transfer parishes between Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire in December 1930. The alterations required were approved by the House of Commons and came into force on 1 April 1931.

The Act resulted in the abolition of Pebworth Rural District and its redistribution to the neighbouring districts of Campden Rural District in Gloucestershire and Evesham Rural District in Worcestershire.

List of Parishes

Research Tips

• Gloucestershire Archives in Gloucester is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for parishes now in Gloucestershire are stored.
• Worcestershire County Council:Archives and Archaeology is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for parishes now in Worcestershire are stored.

Online sources which may also be helpful:

• GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
• A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
• The FamilySearch Wiki for Gloucestershire and The FamilySearch Wiki for Worcestershire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
• A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in both counties
• Unfortunately, only two of the Pebworth Rural District parishes are covered by A History of the County of Gloucester in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online. There does not appear to be a series for Worcestershire.
• Comparing a map of Gloucestershire parishes in 1900 with a map of Gloucestershire parishes made in the 1943 helps to illustrate how the county borders changed through this period. A very helpful diagrammatic map will be found on the Pebworth Rural District page.
• Ancestry.co.uk has recently added Gloucestershire Burials, 1813-1988; Confirmations, 1834-1913; Baptisms, 1813-1913; Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813; and Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938. (entry dated 1 Aug 2015)