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From: "bev bonning" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] R.D. - Registration District or not?
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:33:16 +1000
References: <003601c21f38$cb50e060$bf8b0c3f@1> <002901c21fae$f2e723c0$dbec1f3e@mesh300h>


Thanks Adrian.
It now seems so obvious.
Bev
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian C Whittaker"

> Quite possibly "Rural District" - a unit of local government
administration.
> Prior to 1974 the local government system in the United Kingdom was even
> more complicated than it is now. In the shire counties - the upper tier of
> local government - you would normally find a second tier which had varying
> degrees of authority, Boroughs, Urban Districts, and Rural Districts.
> Parish councils represented a third tier with comparatively few powers.
>
>

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