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The Local
Government Act 1894 also directed that the new rural districts should be only in one county. Where rural sanitary districts straddled county boundaries, as Hitchin Rural Sanitary District did, they should be split into separate rural districts in each county, or otherwise boundary
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agreed to allow the new
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in the early years, with administrative office functions being carried out at 5 Bancroft and 9 Bancroft in
Hitchin, which were the offices of the solicitor who acted as clerk to the council.
249:, rural sanitary districts became rural districts from 28 December 1894. The link with the poor law union continued, with all the elected councillors of the rural district council being
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1339:"North Hertfordshire District Council Offices"
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1303:Hitchin Rural District Council,
1290:Hitchin Rural District Council,
1277:Hitchin Rural District Council,
1063:A Vision of Britain through Time
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216:Rural Sanitary District
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1047:References
919:Wallington
651:Letchworth
324:Wallington
252:ex officio
245:Under the
66:Population
25:51°57′00″N
1124:Hitchin,
1071:31 August
1027:Abolition
982:Wymondley
935:Walsworth
903:Therfield
621:Knebworth
560:Ickleford
528:Hinxworth
437:Caldecote
337:in 1946.
297:Walsworth
240:Stevenage
210:Evolution
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575:Kelshall
482:Graveley
467:Codicote
452:Clothall
341:Parishes
335:new town
1370:Hitchin
966:Willian
821:Rushden
790:Radwell
775:Preston
698:Newnham
636:Langley
591:Kimpton
544:Holwell
422:Bygrave
390:Barkway
370:Ashwell
320:Rushden
304:Ashwell
290:Willian
268:was in
266:Holwell
236:Baldock
232:Hitchin
204:England
153:Hitchin
97:History
951:Weston
871:Sandon
760:Pirton
745:Offley
713:Norton
667:Lilley
513:Hexton
406:Barley
364:Notes
355:Parish
322:, and
316:Sandon
288:, and
286:Norton
272:. The
238:, and
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88:24,760
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