Godstone Rural District

Godstone
Modern successor (The six areas in the north-east corner shown were added on Godstone RD's abolition, one of which was newly created as as civil parish, Whyteleafe, from parts of Warlingham and Caterham)
Area
• 1911	49,907 acres (202.0 km2)
• 1961	52,506 acres (212.5 km2)
Population
• 1901	18,378
• 1971	43,381
History
• Created	1894
• Abolished	1974
• Succeeded by	Tandridge
Status	Rural district
• HQ	Godstone
Subdivisions
• Type	Civil Parishes
• Units	See below

Godstone Rural District was a rural district in Surrey, England from 1894 to 1974.

Geographic evolution

It contained the following civil parishes:^[1]

• Addington (1915–1925) 14.6 square kilometres (5.6 sq mi) joined from Croydon RD then became component of Croydon (St John the Baptist) Civil Parish also officially known as Croydon within Croydon MB
• Bletchingley
• Most of Burstow (1933–1974) (joined from abolition of Reigate Rural District, 10 acres given to Horley)
• Caterham (1894–1899) (component of new Caterham Urban District then Caterham and Warlingham Urban District)
• Chelsham (1894–1969)
• Chaldon (1933-1974)
• Farleigh (1894–1933) 4.25 square kilometres (1.64 sq mi) (for following 36 years in Coulsdon and Purley Urban District)
• Chelsham and Farleigh (1969–1974)
• Crowhurst
• Felbridge
• Godstone
• Horne
• Limpsfield
• Lingfield
• Most of Nutfield (1933–1974) (216 acres given to Reigate MB)
• Oxted
• Tandridge
• Tatsfield
• Titsey
• Warlingham (1894–1929) (component of new Caterham and Warlingham Urban District)
• Woldingham (1894–1933) (component of new Caterham and Warlingham Urban District)

Successor

With the exception of Addington which was a temporary quite early addition, all of the above areas remained together and were combined with the Caterham and Warlingham Urban District to the north to create Tandridge District which is the easternmost part of Surrey.

References