STEYNING WEST Rural District Council

PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES

RD/SW/1 Minutes of Council Meetings, 1894-1933

RD/SW/8 Byelaws and Sealed Orders, 1926

RD/SW/9 Miscellaneous, n.d

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT

RD/SW/16 Plans deposited for approval under local byelaws, 1927-1933

RD/SW/18 Register of plans deposited for byelaw approval, 1924-1925

FINANCE

RD/SW/30 General and Housing Ledgers, 1894-1933

RD/SW/35 Rate Books, 1927-1931

RD/SW/38 Housing Accounts, 1924-1926

RD/SW/43 Registers of Loans and Mortgages, 1878-1929

SURVEYOR AND ENGINEER

RD/SW/53 Working plans, 1900-1912

RD/SW/55 Reports to the Council, 1932-1934

MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH

RD/SW/57 Annual Reports, 1875-1929. See note in catalogue

RD/SW/58 Registers, See note in catalogue

PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR

RD/SW/59A Reports to the Council, 1932-1934

Deposited by Horsham District Council between 1976 and 1983

RD/SW/8/1, RD/SW/9/1, RD/SW/16/1 (part), RD/SW/18/1, RD/SW/53/1-5, RD/SW/55/1 were deposited by Arun District Council in July and October 1976.

A Rural Sanitary Authority was probably formed for Steyning Union in 1872, under the Public Health Act of that year. This Authority covered an area partly in West and partly in East Sussex, but under the Local Government Act of 1894, and a joint Order of the two County Councils of June 1894, the portions of the R.S.A. in the two counties were formed into the separate Rural Districts of Steyning West and Steyning East from December 1894. The parish of Edburton had formerly been bisected by the county boundary, and this was now divided into two separate parishes, Edburton (West Sussex) and Fulking (East Sussex).

This catalogue is only concerned with the records of Steyning West R.D.C. Students requiring records of Steyning East R.D.C. and of Steyning R.S.A. should consult the East Sussex Record Office.

The R.D.C. was abolished in March 1933 under the West Sussex Review Order, and its area divided between two other councils, Worthing R.D.C. [Lancing, Sompting, Coombes] and Chanctonbury R.D.C. [the remainder], except for Old Shoreham, which was merged with Shoreham U.D., and part of Sompting, which was transferred to Worthing Borough.

Between 1894 and 1933 there were several changes in parish and district boundaries, and the major alterations are tabulated below. Full details of all changes may be found in Boundary Changes in West Sussex (WS.R.O. MP 1348).

Ashurst, Upper Beeding, Botolphs, Bramber, Coombes, Edburton, Henfield: nil

Kingston-by-Sea : 1910: transferred to New Shoreham U.D. and extinguished. For a plan see County Council records, ref. WOC/CC 7/1/7.

Lancing : 1910; part transferred to New Shoreham U.D. For a plan see County Council records, ref. WOC/CC 7/1/7.

1927: a further part transferred to Shoreham-by-Sea U.D. For a plan see County Council records, ref. WOC/CC 7/1/12.

Shermanbury : nil

Old Shoreham : 1910: part transferred to New Shoreham U.D. For a plan see County Council records, ref. WOC/CC 7/1/7.

Sompting : 1902: Augmented with part of Broadwater. For a plan see County Council records, ref. CP 7A/C.

Southwick : 1899: declared an Urban District.

Steyning, Woodmancote : nil