Place:Gipping Rural, Suffolk, England

:the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia Gipping Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of East Suffolk, England and the historic county of Suffolk. It was created in 1934 by the merger of most of the disbanded Bosmere and Claydon Rural District and the disbanded East Stow Rural District, under a County Review Order. It was named after the River Gipping and administered from the town of Needham Market. On 1 April 1974 it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, and has since formed part of the District of Mid Suffolk. At the same time the administrative county of East Suffolk was abolished. The Mid Suffolk District is simply a part of Suffolk.

Parishes

The following parishes made up the Gipping Rural District:

Research Tips

• A map of Suffolk from 1900 provided online by A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography) can be enlarged to view individual parishes. Careful inspection will usually lead to the discovery of smaller hamlets founded before 1900. The rural districts (marked with their names printed in blue) are those in existence in 1900, not those introduced in 1934. The more ancient hundreds are marked in red. Most (but not all) parish names are underlined in red.
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