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Royston. No solution that would keep the town together could be found that was acceptable to the two county councils. Therefore, when the Local Government Act came into force at the end of the year, Royston parish was split along the county boundary through the middle of the town into a Royston (Hertfordshire) parish and a Royston (Cambridgeshire) parish, with the Hertfordshire parish being included within the Ashwell Rural District. The special drainage district was likewise split into a North Royston Special Drainage District and a South Royston Special Drainage District, with the latter being administered by the new Ashwell Rural District Council.
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Kneesworth, South Melbourn, and the part of Therfield parish in the South Royston Special Drainage District. Joseph Phillips, the chairman of Ashwell Rural District Council, was a representative for Royston, and so lost his place on the council. He was co-opted back onto the rural district council and continued to serve as chairman of Ashwell Rural District Council until April 1898. In the meantime he was also elected the first chairman of the new Royston Urban District Council, and so for a few months he was chairman of two neighbouring district councils.
524:, the district's largest village, the council remained based in the town of Royston, reflecting the district's origins in the Royston Poor Law Union. The council generally met at the board room of the Royston Union Workhouse after meetings of the larger Board of Guardians. Administrative office functions were carried out at the office (and home) of the clerk to the council, Arthur Sharpe, at The Laurels, 13 King Street (called Back Street prior to 1911) in Royston. By the early 1930s the council was also using The Laurels as its meeting place.
234:, rural sanitary districts became rural districts from 28 December 1894. Where rural sanitary districts straddled county boundaries, as Royston Rural Sanitary District did, they were to be split into separate rural districts in each county. The Ashwell Rural District was therefore created as the part of the Royston Rural Sanitary District in Hertfordshire.
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districts in the north and east of the county, including
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the boards of guardians and poor law unions were abolished, and provisions were put in place allowing county councils to review the districts within their areas to form more effective areas for administrative purposes. Hertfordshire County
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for the town. On 1 October 1897, a year and a day after the county boundary change, an urban district was established for
Royston, at which point Royston ceased to be part of the Ashwell Rural District. The new urban district of Royston covered the parishes of Royston, North Royston, South
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Hertfordshire, and on 30 September 1896 the parish of Royston (Cambridgeshire) and the parts of the Cambridgeshire parishes of Bassingbourn, Kneesworth, and Melbourn that were within the North Royston Special Drainage District were transferred to
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