Place:Thorney Rural, Isle of Ely, England

NOTE: In 1889 Cambridgeshire was separated into two sections:

• the administrative county of Cambridgeshire and
• the administrative county of Isle of Ely.

The existence of two counties was to last until 1965 when they came back together as Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. But in 1974 the area, under a new type of administration, reverted to the name Cambridgeshire. For more discussion of this situation, see Isle of Ely, England. In keeping with the policies of WeRelate, all the places within the Isle of Ely during its existence include "Isle of Ely" in their placenames instead of "Cambridgeshire".

A process is built in so that the places can be redirected to the Isle of Ely if they are originally referred to as Cambridgeshire.

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Thorney Rural District was located in the Isle of Ely, England from 1894 to 1965 and was situated to the east of city of Peterborough.

It was created under the Local Government Act 1894, covering the parishes of Thorney and Stanground. In 1904 Stanground was split, with the new parish Stanground North remaining in the rural district (and within the Isle of Ely), while the remainder, Stanground South, became part of the Old Fletton urban district in neighbouring county of Huntingdonshire, England.

In 1965, when the Isle of Ely was merged with Cambridgeshire to form Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, Thorney Rural District was instead transferred to the administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough.

In 1974, the district was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, its area going to form part of the Peterborough District, in the new non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire.