EASTRY RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL

RD/Ea/A Administration 1881-1974

RD/Ea/AM1-11 Council minutes 1894-1930

RD/Ea/AM12-31 Council and Committee minutes 1930-1950

RD/Ea/Ac1-4 Committee minutes 1894-1961

RD/Ea/ACr1 Annual reports: Medical Officer of Health 1951-1968

RD/Ea/ACr2 Annual reports: Public Health Inspector on Environmental Health 1949-1973

RD/Ea/ACr3-8 Reports and agendas of committees 1972-1974

RD/Ea/ACr9 Notices and agendas of Council and Committee 1972-1974

RD/Ea/Ar1-3, 7-9 Seal registers 1926-1973

RD/Ea/Ar4 Register of houses 1930-1933

RD/Ea/Ar5 Register of petroleum licences 1926-1951

RD/Ea/Ar6 Register of building applications 1938-1948

RD/Ea/Aud1 Drainage undertakings: sewerage and sewage disposal, Ash 1936-1941

RD/Ea/Aud2-3 Drainage undertakings: sewage treatment works, Minster 1937-1946

RD/Ea/Auw1-6 Water undertakings: Wingham water supply 1881-1924

RD/Ea/Auw7-9 Drainage undertakings: water supply [various parishes] 1902-1945

RD/Ea/Az1-2 Registers: councillors' declarations on acceptance of office 1895-1973

RD/Ea/Az3 Register: disclosures and general notes 1934-1943

RD/Ea/Az4 Committee attendance book 1957-1962

RD/Ea/Az5 Opening of new Council offices 1938

RD/Ea/Az6/1-5 Kent Local Pension Committee [Eastry Sub-Committee] 1912-1948

RD/Ea/C Correspondence 1926-1956

RD/Ea/C1/1-9 General correspondence 1926-1956

RD/Ea/C2/1-23 Review of County Districts 1930-1949

RD/Ea/Cd Civil Defence Records 1936-1959

RD/Ea/Cd1-81, 176 Air Raid Precautions, World War II 1936-1959

RD/Ea/Cd82-175 Post World War II 1943-1959

RD/Ea/F Finance 1890-1974

RD/Ea/F1/1-11 Treasurer's accounts 1937-1974

RD/Ea/F2/1-13 Highways accounts 1936-1947

RD/Ea/F3/1-5 Funds 1940-1945

RD/Ea/F4/1-3 Loans 1937-1963

RD/Ea/F5/1 Abstracts of accounts 1971-1972

RD/Ea/FL1-6 Ledgers 1900-1953

RD/Ea/FUw1-2 Water undertakings: Wingham water supply 1890-1902

RD/Ea/H Eastry Highway Board (pre-cursor to Eastry R. D. C.) 1838-1954

RD/Ea/H1-12, 27 Surveyors' report books 1880-1930

RD/Ea/H13-14 Wages books 1907-1912

RD/Ea/H15 Superannuation register 1938-1940

RD/Ea/H16-17 Ordnance Survey maps 1896-1897

RD/Ea/H18-26 Surveyor's schedules for tithe apportionments 1838-1841

RD/Ea/H28-30 Miscellaneous 1928-1954

RD/Ea/He Health Records 1922-1975

RD/Ea/He1/1-8 Complaints registers: rodent control 1953-1971

RD/Ea/He1/9 Complaints register: public health 1965-1968

RD/Ea/He1/10-17 Miscellaneous registers (food, milk, housing, scrap metal, etc.) 1922-1975

RD/Ea/He2/1-5 Correspondence (housing, cinema and theatre licences, scrap metal, registration of riding establishments) 1933-1973

RD/Ea/He3/1-18 Survey: overcrowding 1936-1939

RD/Ea/He3/19-33 Survey: housing 1945-1950

RD/Ea/He3/34 Survey: houses with pail closets 1959-1961

RD/Ea/R Rating and Valuation 1914-1963

RD/Ea/Rb1-2, 22 General and special rate books 1927-1928

RD/Ea/Rb3-12 Rate account books 1929-1950

RD/Ea/Rb13-14, Rv2 Rate poundage books 1927-1944

RD/Ea/Rb15 Water rates 1939-1943

RD/Ea/Rb16-19 Grand summary of rates 1939-1963

RD/Ea/Rb20 Poor rates 1914-1926

RD/Ea/Rb21 Poor rates and special expenses 1925-1926

RD/Ea/Rv1, 3 Valuation lists 1923x1933

RD/Ea/T Title Deeds 1890-1906

RD/Ea/T1 Land in Wingham 1890-1906

RD/Ea/Z Miscellaneous 1902

RD/Ea/Z1-2 Framed photographs 1902, undated

RD/Ea/P Maps and Plans 1837-1945

RD/Ea/P1-26 Tithe maps (copies) 1837-1864

RD/Ea/P27-35 South East Kent Electric Power Company: plans of rural district 1935-1945

Records are open for consultation unless otherwise indicated

These were received as follows:

June 1961: Surveyor's records of Eastry Highway Board and Eastry Rural District Council, 1837-1940

Deposited by the Divisional Surveyor, Sandwich

Catalogued by J. M. Farrar, June 1961

Partially recatalogued April 2000

RD/Ea/H1-26; RD/Ea/P1-26

August 1980 & January 1981: Additional Eastry Rural District Council records, 1894-1973

Deposited by Dover District Council, Legal and Administrative Department

Catalogued by M. Carter, December 1981

RD/Ea/AM1-31; RD/Ea/Ac1-4; RD/Ea/Ar1-4; RD/Ea/Az1-4; RD/Ea/FL1-6; RD/Ea/Rb1/1-6, 2/1-3, 3/1-3, 4/1-2, 5/1, 6/1, 7/1-2, 8/1-4, 9/1-5, 10-19

October & November 1982: Additional records of Eastry Rural District Council, 1881-1971

Deposited by Dover District Council, Environmental Health Department

Catalogued by M. Carter, November 1982

RD/Ea/ACr1; RD/Ea/Ar5-6; RD/Ea/AUd1-3; RD/Ea/AUw1-9; RD/Ea/Az5; RD/Ea/C1/1-9, C2/1-23; RD/Ea/Cd1-175; RD/Ea/F1/1-10, 2/1-13, 3/1-5, 4/1-3; RD/Ea/FUw1-2; RD/Ea/H27-30; RD/Ea/He1/1-9, 2/1, 3/1-34; RD/Ea/Rb20/1-31, 21/1-3, 22; RD/Ea/Rv1/1-14, 2-3; RD/Ea/T1; RD/Ea/Z1-2; RD/Ea/P27-35

July 1983: Additional records of Eastry Rural District Council, 1912-1975

Deposited by Dover District Council, Environmental Health and Chief Executive's Departments

Catalogued by M. Carter, August 1983

RD/Ea/ACr2-9; RD/Ea/Ar7-9; RD/Ea/Az6/1-5; RD/Ea/Cd176; RD/Ea/F1/11, 5/1; RD/Ea/He1/10-17, 2/2-5

Rural District Councils came into being, along with Urban District Councils and Parish Councils, under the Local Government Act of 1894. Based on the former sanitary authorities, their main functions were the provision of public health and highways services. They had a constitutional basis and operated on openly democratic lines

With the Town and Country Planning Act of 1932, control over the use and development of land was devolved to the Rural District Councils, supplementing their role of providing low-cost council housing.

Rural Districts also often shared responsibility for such things as allotments, footpaths and recreation grounds with Parish Councils.

In 1974, when the Local Government Act of 1972 became operational, Rural District Councils, along with their Urban counterparts, were abolished: their services being taken over by the newly created District Councils. (Tony Byrne, Local Government in Britain: Everyone's Guide to How It All Works (Penguin, 2000), pp. 18-21; 34-41)

Eastry Rural District Council consisted of the parishes of:

Acol (1935-1974, previously Thanet Rural District Council)

Ash

Aylesham

Barfrestone (1894-1935)

Betteshanger (1894-1935)

Chillenden (1894-1935)

Eastry

Elmstone (1894-1935)

Eythorne

Goodnestone

Great Mongeham (1894-1935)

Ham (1894-1935)

Knowlton (1894-1935)

Little Mongeham (1894-1935)

Minster (1935-1974, previously Thanet Rural District Council)

Monckton (1935-1974, previously Thanet Rural District Council)

Nonington

Northbourne

Preston

Ripple

St Nicholas at Wade (1935-1974, previously Thanet Rural District Council)

Sarre (1935-1974, previously Thanet Rural District Council)

Sholden

Staple

Stourmouth

Sutton

Tilmanstone

Waldershare (1894-1935)

Wingham

Woodnesborough

Worth