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The Rother District is a local government district in East Sussex, England. Its council is based in Bexhill on Sea. The district is named after the River Rother which flows within its boundaries.
Rother District (or the District of Rother) was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of Bexhill Municipal Borough, the Municipal Borough of Rye and Battle Rural District.
The Borough of Hastings lies surrounded by the Rother District.
List of Parishes
| Parish | Population (2011) | Area in hectares | Pop'n Density /hectare/2011 | Former Local Administration
| | Ashburnham & Penhurst | 397 | 2239 | 0.18 | Battle Rural District
| | Battle | 6,673 | 3180 | 2.10 | Battle Rural District
| | Beckley | 1,037 | 2275 | 0.46 | Battle Rural District
| | Bexhill on Sea | 43,107 | 3231 | 13.34 | Bexhill Municipal Borough
| | Bodiam | 393 | 649 | 0.61 | Battle Rural District
| | Brede | 1,763 | 1761 | 1.00 | Battle Rural District
| | Brightling | 371 | 1984 | 0.19 | Battle Rural District
| | Burwash | 2,713 | 3013 | 0.90 | Battle Rural District
| | Camber | 1,265 | 1405 | 0.90 | Battle Rural District
| | Catsfield | 891 | 1222 | 0.73 | Battle Rural District
| | Crowhurst | 891 | 1014 | 0.88 | Battle Rural District
| | Dallington | 292 | 786 | 0.37 | Battle Rural District
| | Etchingham | 806 | 1338 | 0.60 | Battle Rural District
| | Ewhurst | 1,130 | 2364 | 0.48 | Battle Rural District
| | Fairlight | 1,670 | 613 | 2.72 | Battle Rural District
| | Guestling | 1,432 | 1593 | 0.90 | Battle Rural District
| | Hurst Green | 1,481 | 1037 | 1.43 | Battle Rural District
| | Icklesham | 2,751 | 2352 | 1.17 | Battle Rural District
| | Iden | 456 | 1202 | 0.38 | Battle Rural District
| | Mountfield | 616 | 1526 | 0.40 | Battle Rural District
| | Northiam | 2,083 | 1451 | 1.44 | Battle Rural District
| | Peasmarsh | 1,191 | 1581 | 0.75 | Battle Rural District
| | Pett | 846 | 651 | 1.30 | Battle Rural District
| | Playden and East Guldeford | 340 | 1657 | 0.21 | Battle Rural District
| | Rye | 4,255 | 415 | 10.25 | Rye Municipal Borough
| | Rye Foreign | 335 | 386 | 0.87 | Battle Rural District
| | Salehurst & Robertsbridge | 2,728 | 1815 | 1.50 | Battle Rural District
| | Sedlescombe | 1,476 | 1264 | 1.17 | Battle Rural District
| | Ticehurst | 3,873 | 3252 | 1.19 | Battle Rural District
| | Udimore | 369 | 1171 | 0.32 | Battle Rural District
| | Westfield | 2,583 | 1912 | 1.35 | Battle Rural District
| | Whatlington | 374 | 604 | 0.62 | Battle Rural District
| | Rother District, Totals | 90,588 | 50943 | 1.78 |
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Playden and East Guldeford are merged in the statistical analysis although they are both civil parishes in their own right. Playden has a Parish Council whilst East Guldeford holds a Parish Meeting.
Research tips
- The East Sussex Record Office, The Keep, Woollards Way, Brighton, BN1 9BP, United Kingdom (email thekeep@eastsussex.gov.uk) holds material for the Archdeaconry of Lewes, present-day East Sussex, and therefore generally holds historical material for East Sussex parishes only. An on-line catalogue for some of the collections held by the East Sussex Record Office (ESRO) is available under the Access to Archives (A2A) project (a nationwide facility housed at The National Archives, Kew).
- The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies' Sussex Collection (PDF). This is a 9-page PDF naming the files relating to Sussex in their collection-a possible first step in a course of research.
- Further resources may be found on GENUKI's main page on Sussex.
- The National Library of Scotland has a website which provides maps taken from the Ordnance Survey England & Wales One-Inch to the Mile series of 1892-1908 as well as equivalent maps for Scotland itself. The immediate presentation is a "help" screen and a place selection screen prompting the entry of a location down to town, village or parish level. These screens can be removed by a click of the "X". The map is very clear and shows parish and county boundaries and many large buildings and estates that existed at the turn of the 20th century. Magnification can be adjusted and an "overlay feature" allows inspection of the area today along with that of 1900. The specific map from the series can be viewed as a whole ("View this map") and this allows the inspection of the map legend (found in the left hand bottom corner. Becoming familiar with the various facilities of these maps is well worth the trouble.
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