Skirlaugh Rural District

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Skirlaugh was a rural district in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 to 1935.^[1]

Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the administrative counties.

The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding, is an area in Northern England and can refer either to the administrative county of the East Riding of Yorkshire which is a unitary authority, to the ceremonial county (Lieutenancy) of the East Riding of Yorkshire or to the easternmost of the three subdivisions (ridings) of the traditional county of Yorkshire.

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to the west and Scotland to the north-northwest. The Irish Sea lies west of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

The district formed an area around the Hornsea urban district.

Hornsea is a small seaside resort, town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The settlement dates to at least the early medieval period. The town was expanded in the Victorian era with the coming of the Hull and Hornsea Railway in 1864.

In England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected urban district council (UDC), which shared local government responsibilities with a county council.

The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894.^[1]

The Local Government Act 1894 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The Act followed the reforms carried out at county level under the Local Government Act 1888. The 1894 legislation introduced elected councils at district and parish level.

In 1935 the district was abolished by a County Review Order made under the Local Government Act 1929.^[1] and the area then formed part of the newly created Holderness Rural District.^[1] At the same time a small part was transferred to the municipal borough of Kingston upon Hull.^[1]

The Local Government Act 1929 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made changes to the Poor Law and local government in England and Wales.

Holderness was a rural district in the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1935 to 1974. It covered the southern part of the East Riding's North Sea coast.

Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002. Broadly similar structures existed in Scotland from 1833 to 1975 with the reform of royal burghs and creation of police burghs.

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References

1 2 3 4 5 "Relationships / unit history of Skirlaugh RD". A Vision of Britain Through Time. Great Britain Historical GIS Project. Retrieved 2009-07-27.

External links

Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Skirlaugh RD ( historic map ). Retrieved 2009-07-27.

The Great Britain Historical GIS, is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801. The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the website A Vision of Britain through Time.

Coordinates: 53°51′07″N0°12′47″W / 53.852°N 0.213°W / 53.852; -0.213

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[VoB1-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "Relationships / unit history of Skirlaugh RD". A Vision of Britain Through Time. Great Britain Historical GIS Project. Retrieved 2009-07-27.