ROMNEY MARSH RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL

RD/Rm/A ADMINISTRATION 1864-1974

RD/Rm/AM1/1-29 Minutes of the Rural District Council Rural Sanitary Authority until 1895 1872-1974

RD/Rm/AM2/1-16 Minutes of committees 1945-1974

RD/Rm/AM3/1-2 Minutes of the Highway Board 1864-1895

RD/Rm/AB1/1-5 Byelaws: general 1913-1937

RD/Rm/AB2/1-3 Byelaws: buildings 1938-1961

RD/Rm/AB3/1-2 Byelaws: public bathing 1917-1929

RD/Rm/AB4/1-2 Byelaws: tents, vans, sheds, etc. 1933-1935

RD/Rm/AC1/1-3 Certification: dairies and milk distributors 1920x1952

RD/Rm/AC2/1 Certification: housing c.1933

RD/Rm/AD1-4 Declarations of councillors on acceptance of office 1922-1973

RD/Rm/AE1-3 Elections 1938-1969

RD/Rm/AL1/1-5 Licences: petroleum spirit 1955-1964

RD/Rm/AO1-2 Officers' appointments 1900-1946

RD/Rm/AR1-15 Registers mortgages, rates, rent, disclosures and notices, superannuation, burials and cremations, local land charges, licence fees slaughter houses and petroleum spirit, civil defence and housing 1890x1969

RD/Rm/AZ1/1-27 Lists of committees and local particulars, Romney Marsh Union and Rural District Council 1903-1930

RD/Rm/AZ2/1-11 Lists of committees and local particulars, Romney Marsh Rural District Council 1930-1941

RD/Rm/AZ3/1 Standing orders not dated

RD/Rm/AZ4/1-3 Miscellaneous 1947x1950

RD/Rm/C CLERK'S CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS 1866-1971

RD/Rm/C1/1-15 General correspondence 1901-1964

RD/Rm/C2/1-8 Drainage and water supply 1866-1946

RD/Rm/C3/1-7 Housing and building 1919-1971

RD/Rm/C4/1-18 Boundaries 1929x1966

RD/Rm/C5/1-3 Government circulars 1924-1960

RD/Rm/C6/1-4 British Rail 1965-1971

RD/Rm/C7/1-5 Kent County Council 1909-1971

RD/Rm/F FINANCE 1847-1974

RD/Rm/F1/1 General ledger: Rural Sanitary Authority 1874-1884

RD/Rm/F2/1-7 General ledgers: Rural District Council 1922-1972

RD/Rm/F3/1-2 Parochial ledgers 1924-1963

RD/Rm/F4/1 Loans ledger 1948-1962

RD/Rm/F5/1-3 Accounts and income journals 1964-1967

RD/Rm/F6/1-3 Treasurer's accounts 1949-1964

RD/Rm/F7/1-7 Accounts: wages and salaries 1946-1974

RD/Rm/F8/1-6 Accounts: Council housing 1938x1971

RD/Rm/F9/1-5 Accounts: general 1915-1966

RD/Rm/Fz1-8 Accounts: miscellaneous 1847-1972

RD/Rm/H MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH 1876-1949

RD/Rm/H1/1-5 Reports to Rural Sanitary Authority 1876-1877

RD/Rm/H2/1-30 Reports to Rural District Council 1914-1949

RD/Rm/H3/1 Hospital admissions register 1904-1945

RD/Rm/L LEGAL 1913-1950

RD/Rm/L1/1-2 Acts of Parliament 1923-1936

RD/Rm/L2/1-3 Command papers 1945-1946

RD/Rm/L3/1-3 Statutory instruments and orders, etc. 1913-1950

RD/Rm/R RATING AND VALUATION 1848-1974

RD/Rm/R1/1-42 General rate books 1936-1962

RD/Rm/R2/1-2 Rate accounts ledger 1927-1962

RD/Rm/R3/1-3 Rate accounts 1929-1931

RD/Rm/R4/1-4 Water rates 1929-1961

RD/Rm/R5/1-2 Rate produce books 1928-1974

RD/Rm/R6/1-3 Miscellaneous 1951-1970

RD/Rm/Rp1 Blackmanstone parish 1880-1921

RD/Rm/Rp2 Brenzett parish 1861-1921

RD/Rm/Rp3 Brookland parish 1867-1920

RD/Rm/Rp4 Burmarsh parish 1877-1921

RD/Rm/Rp5 Dymchurch parish 1889-1920

RD/Rm/Rp6 Eastbridge parish 1878-1920

RD/Rm/Rp7 Fairfield parish 1867-1921

RD/Rm/Rp8 Hope All Saints parish 1867-1920

RD/Rm/Rp9 Ivychurch parish 1880-1920

RD/Rm/Rp10 Midley parish 1880-1920

RD/Rm/Rp11 Newchurch parish 1877-1920

RD/Rm/Rp12 New Romney parish 1872-1920

RD/Rm/Rp13 Old Romney parish 1848-1920

RD/Rm/Rp14 Orgarswick parish 1866-1922

RD/Rm/Rp15 St. Martin's parish 1897-1921

RD/Rm/Rp16 St. Mary's parish 1877-1921

RD/Rm/Rp17 Snargate parish 1869-1920

RD/Rm/Rp18 Snave parish 1866-1920

RD/Rm/Rp19 West Hythe parish 1861-1884

RD/Rm/Rv1/1-4 Valuation lists 1890-1950

RD/Rm/Rv2/1-3 Valuation: correspondence 1902-1938

RD/Rm/S SURVEYOR AND SANITARY INSPECTOR 1925x1971

RD/Rm/S1-9 Registers, reports, contracts, etc. 1925x1971

RD/Rm/T TITLE 1900-1967

RD/Rm/T1/1-3 Conveyances 1927-1961

RD/Rm/T2/1-9 Contracts 1900-1967

RD/Rm/Z FINAL MISCELLANEOUS 1846-1977

RD/Rm/Z1-4 Miscellaneous papers 1846-1977

RD/Rm/P PLANS 1912x1973

RD/Rm/P1-18 Plans 1912x1973

All records are open for consultation unless otherwise indicated.

These were received as follows:

c.1974-1984 Records of Romney Marsh Rural District Council, 1846-1977

Deposited by Romney Marsh Rural District Council and Shepway District Council

Catalogued by M. P. Shaw in 1985

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)

Romney Marsh Rural District Council consisted of the parishes of:

Blackmanstone (1894-1934)

Brenzett

Brookland

Burmarsh

Dymchurch

Eastbridge (1894-1934)

Fairfield (1894-1934)

Hope All Saints (1894-1934)

Ivychurch

Midley (1894-1934)

Newchurch

Old Romney

Orgarswick (1894-1934)

Orlestone

St Mary in the Marsh

Snargate

Snave (1894-1934)