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rural district A rural district was a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom.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

in the

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

, England. It was subject to boundary reforms in 1934 and 1935. It consisted of the following

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

es: * Allhallows (1935–1974; gained from Hoo Rural District) *

Chalk Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Ch ...

(1894–1935; abolished and transferred to the Municipal Borough of Gravesend) * Cliffe * Cobham *

Cooling Cooling is removal of heat, usually resulting in a lower temperature and/or Phase transition, phase change. Temperature lowering achieved by any other means may also be called cooling. The Heat transfer, transfer of Internal energy, thermal energ ...

(1935–1974; gained from Hoo Rural District) * Cuxton *Denton (1894–1935; abolished and transferred to the Municipal Borough of Gravesend) * Frindsbury Extra (part transferred to the City of Rochester in 1934) * Halling * Higham * High Halstow (1935–1974; gained from Hoo Rural District) *

Hoo St Werburgh Hoo St Werburgh, commonly known as Hoo, is a large village and civil parish in the Medway, Medway district of Kent, England. It is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula to bear the name ''Hoo'', a Saxon word believed to mean "spur of l ...

(1935–1974; gained from Hoo Rural District) * Ifield (1894–1935; abolished and split between Cobham and the Municipal Borough of Gravesend) *

Isle of Grain Isle of Grain (Old English ''Greon'', meaning gravel) is a village and the easternmost point of the Hoo Peninsula within the unitary authority, district of Medway in Kent, south-east England. Once an island and now forming part of the peninsul ...

(1935–1974; gained from Hoo Rural District) * Luddesdown * Meopham * Nurstead * Shorne * St Mary Hoo (1935–1974; gained from Hoo Rural District) * Stoke (1935–1974; gained from Hoo Rural District) * Strood Extra (1894–1934; abolished and split between Cuxton and the City of Rochester) On 1 April 1974 the district was abolished and split between the new districts of

Medway Medway is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in the ceremonial county of Kent in South East England. It was formed in 1998 by merging the boroughs of City of Roche ...

and

Gravesham Gravesham ( ) is a local government district with borough status in north-west Kent, England. The council is based in its largest town of Gravesend. The borough is indirectly named after Gravesend, using the form of the town's name as it appear ...

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{{Coord, 51.4038, 0.5048, display=title, region:GB, format=dms Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 History of Kent Politics of Medway Local government in Kent Rural districts of England