Place:Peterborough Rural, Soke of Peterborough, England

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NamePeterborough Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates52.57°N 0.244°W
Located inSoke of Peterborough, England     (1894 - 1965)
Also located inHuntingdon and Peterborough, England     (1965 - 1974)
See alsoCambridgeshire, Englandcounty in which the area is located since 1974
Peterborough District, Cambridgeshire, Englandunitary authority within Cambridgeshire
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Peterborough Rural District adjoined the city and municipal borough of Peterborough, England, from 1894 to 1974.

The rural district was created under the Local Government Act 1894, from the part of the Peterborough Rural Sanitary District that was in the administrative county of Soke of Peterborough (the rest, in Huntingdonshire, formed the Norman Cross Rural District).

In 1929 the city's boundaries were extended by absorbing six of the rural district's parishes.

Local government reorganisation abolished the Soke in 1965 and the rural district was transferred to the new administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough. The rural district was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, when it became part of the Peterborough District of the new non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire.

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Civil parishes

The rural district consisted of the following civil parishes:

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Research Tips

  • If you are researching anyone whose lifetime preceded (or even mostly preceded) 1889, the places in which he or she lived are going to be in Northamptonshire rather than the Soke of Peterborough. The Soke of Peterborough was actually a section of Northamptonshire.
  • Original historical documents relating to the Soke of Peterborough are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office in Peterborough.
  • GENUKI does not provide webpages for the Soke of Peterborough and its provision for Northamptonshire is very limited.
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages on Northamptonshire (including the Soke of Peterborough).
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from 1889 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions.
  • Map of Northamptonshire in 1900 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time shows the Soke of Peterborough (not labelled as such) in the top right hand corner.
  • Map of Northamptonshire divisions (including the Soke of Peterborough) in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
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