Bourne was a

rural district A rural district was a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. I ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, Parts of Kesteven from 1894 to 1931. It was created by the

Local Government Act 1894 The Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) 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 leve ...

based on the Bourne

rural sanitary district Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1872 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures: *Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies *Rural sanitary dis ...

. In 1931, under a County Review Order, it was abolished, with its area going to form part of the new South Kesteven Rural District.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20071001011633/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10216606&c_id=10001043 {{coord, 52.75, -0.45, dim:30000_region:GB, display=title Rural districts of Kesteven Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894

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