Gainsborough Rural District

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Gainsborough
Gainsborough Rural District, Lindsey (1970).svg
Gainsborough Rural District shown within Parts of Lindsey in 1970.
History
  Created1894
  Abolished1974
  Succeeded by West Lindsey
Status Rural district

Gainsborough was rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey from 1894 to 1974. [1]

It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Gainsborough rural sanitary district which was in Lindsey (the Nottinghamshire part becoming the Misterton Rural District). It was reduced in 1936 under a County Review Order by ceding the parishes of Haxey, Owston Ferry and West Butterwick, all part of the Isle of Axholme, to the Isle of Axholme Rural District. [2]

It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and incorporated into the new district of West Lindsey. [3]

References

  1. Tour notes for the Annual conference of the Association for Industrial Archaeology held in Lincoln, September 2009 (PDF). The Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. 2009. ISBN   978-0-903582-38-4 . Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  2. Willats, Eric A. (2021) [1986]. Streets with a Story (PDF). Islington Heritage Service. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
  3. "Relationships Map: Unit 10153815 to Unit 10001043". A Vision of Britain Through Time. University of Portsmouth and others. Retrieved 7 October 2025.

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