Chelmsford Rural District was a local government district in Essex, England from 1894 to 1974. It surrounded, but did not include, the town of Chelmsford;[3] which formed a municipal borough.
It was formed as a rural district in 1894, based on the Chelmsford rural sanitary district.[4] It included the parishes of:
Boreham
Broomfield
Buttsbury
Chignal St James
Danbury
East Hanningfield
Good Easter
Great Baddow
Great Leighs
Great Waltham
Highwood
Ingatestone and Fryerning
Little Baddow
Little Leighs
Little Waltham
Margaretting
Mashbury
Pleshey
Rettendon
Roxwell
Runwell
Sandon
South Hanningfield
Springfield
Stock
West Hanningfield
Widford
Woodham Ferrers
Writtle
During 1934 there were some changes to the district boundary.[3] The municipal borough of Chelmsford expanded and gained 1,659 acres (7 km2) from the rural district, including parts of the parishes of Broomfield, Springfield, Widford, and Writtle. At the same time 1,282 acres (5 km2) were transferred from Buttsbury parish to form part of Billericay Urban District. Later that year, an area of 6,128 acres (25 km2), made up of Mountnessing and parts of the parishes of Downham, Ramsden Bellhouse, Ramsden Crays and Shenfield, was gained from the abolished Billericay Rural District. Also at this time 274 acres (1 km2) was gained from the parish of Hockley in Rochford Rural District.
The district was abolished in 1974 and its former area was merged with the municipal borough of Chelmsford to form the current non-metropolitan district of Chelmsford, which inherited the borough charter. The parishes of Ingatestone and Fryerning and Mountnessing became part of the district of Brentwood. The former council offices in New London Road are now used as a Jobcentre Plus.
^Bettley, J., Essex, (2007)
^"London issue" (PDF). The London Gazette. No. 44799. 28 February 1969. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
^ abVision of Britain – Chelmsford RD [permanent dead link] (historic map [permanent dead link])
^Vision of Britain – Chelmsford RSD (historic map [permanent dead link])
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