Samford Rural District was a

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within the administrative county of East Suffolk between 1894 and 1974. It was created out of the earlier Samford

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 ...

. It was named after the historic

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of Samford, whose boundaries it closely matched, containing the same parishes. Under the East Suffolk County Review Order of 1934, the only changes made were a revision of the boundary with the county borough of

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...

. This boundary was revised again in 1952. Under the

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, Samford Rural District was abolished in 1974, and its area became part of the district of Babergh.

Statistics

Parishes

Samford Rural District contained the following parishes:

References

History of Suffolk Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 Rural districts of England {{Former local government areas in Suffolk