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Thingoe
Location within West Suffolk, 1894 Location within West Suffolk, 1935
History
• Created	1894
• Abolished	1974
• Succeeded by	St Edmundsbury Borough
Status	Rural district
• HQ	Bury St Edmunds

Thingoe Rural District was a rural district in the county of West Suffolk, England between 1894 and 1974. It was named after the ancient Hundred of Thingoe ("thing-hoe" – "assembly-mound") and administered from Bury St Edmunds, which it surrounded.

History

Thingoe Rural District was formed under the Local Government Act 1894.

On 1 April 1935 the parish of Depden was transferred to the Clare Rural District. On the same date the district was enlarged by the transfer of the civil parishes of Barnham, Barningham, Coney Weston, Euston, Fakenham Magna, Hepworth, Honington, Hopton, Knettishall, Market Weston, Sapiston, and Thelnetham from the disbanded Brandon Rural District.

The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. Since 1 April 1974 it has formed part of the borough of St Edmundsbury and became part of West Suffolk district in 2019.

Parishes

At the time of its dissolution it consisted of the following 58 parishes.

1. Ampton
2. Bardwell
3. Barnham
4. Barningham
5. Barrow
6. Bradfield Combust
7. Bradfield St Clare
8. Bradfield St George
9. Brockley
10. Chedburgh
11. Chevington
12. Coney Weston
13. Culford
14. Denham St Mary
15. Euston
16. Fakenham Magna
17. Flempton
18. Fornham All Saints
19. Fornham St Genevieve
20. Fornham St Martin
21. Great Barton
22. Great Livermere
23. Great Saxham
24. Great Whelnetham
25. Hardwick
26. Hargrave
27. Hawstead
28. Hengrave
29. Hepworth
30. Honington
31. Hopton
32. Horringer
33. Ickworth
34. Ingham
35. Ixworth Thorpe
36. Ixworth
37. Knettishall
38. Lackford
39. Little Livermere
40. Little Saxham
41. Little Whelnetham
42. Market Weston
43. Nowton
44. Pakenham
45. Rede
46. Risby
47. Rushbrooke
48. Rougham
49. Sapiston
50. Stanningfield
51. Stanton
52. Thelnetham
53. Timworth
54. Troston
55. West Stow
56. Westley
57. Whepstead
58. Wordwell

Statistics

References

1. "Thingoe RD through time: Census tables with data for the Local Government District". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
2. "Thingoe RD through time: Population Statistics: Area (acres)". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
3. "Thingoe RD through time: Population Statistics: Total Population". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 8 July 2017.

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