Place:South Wight District, Isle of Wight, England

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NameSouth Wight District
TypeDistrict municipality
Coordinates50.6°N 1.2°W
Located inIsle of Wight, England     (1974 - 1995)
See alsoSandown-Shanklin, Isle of Wight, Englandurban district which formed part of the South Wight District in 1974
Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Englandurban district which formed part of the South Wight District in 1974
Isle of Wight Rural, Isle of Wight, Englandrural district which formed part of the South Wight District in 1974
Isle of Wight (council), Englandbody covering the whole of the island since 1995
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South Wight District (also known as South Wight Borough) was a non-metropolitan district with the status of a borough on the Isle of Wight in England from 1974 to 1995.

The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of Sandown-Shanklin and Ventnor urban districts and Isle of Wight Rural District. It was one of two districts on the island formed in 1974 - the other was Medina.

Following a review by the Local Government Commission for England, the borough was abolished on 1 April 1995, when a single Isle of Wight Council replaced the island's county council and two district councils.

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  • GENUKI has a list of archive holders in Hampshire including the Hampshire Record Office, various museums in Portsmouth and Southhampton, the Isle of Wight Record Office and Archives.
  • The Hampshire Online Parish Clerk project has a large collection of transcriptions from Parish Registers across Hampshire.
  • A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 together with tables listing the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered, along with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
  • The three-storey City Museum in Winchester covers the Iron Age and Roman periods, the Middle Ages, and the Victorian period.
  • Volumes in The Victoria County History Series are available for Hampshire through British History Online. There are three volumes and the county is covered by parishes within the old divisions of "hundreds".
A collection of maps on the A Vision of Britain through Time website illustrating the English county of Hampshire over the period 1832-1932 (the last two are expandible):
  • A group of maps of the post-1974 municipal districts or boroughs of Hampshire on Wikipedia Commons
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