Place:Woodbridge Rural, Suffolk, England

Woodbridge Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of East Suffolk, England and in the historic county of Suffolk. It was created in 1894 from the Woodbridge Rural Sanitary District. In 1934 it was disbanded and replaced by the newly created Deben Rural District. At the same time Ipswich County Borough absorbed parts of nearby civil parishes. The town of Woodbridge was made an urban district in 1894 as the area surrounding it became a rural district.

Parishes

The following parishes made up the Woodbridge 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.