WESTBOURNE Rural District Council

PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES

RD/WB/1. Minutes of Council Meetings, 1872-1933

RD/WB/3. Minutes of Committee Meetings, 1895-1933

RD/WB/8. Byelaws and Sealed Orders, 1905

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT

RD/WB/12. Agreements, Contracts, and Mortgages, 1897-1931

RD/WB/16. Plans deposited for approval under local byelaws, 1919-1933

RD/WB/18. Registers of plans deposited for approval under local byelaws, 1919-1933

RD/WB/24. Miscellaneous, 1927-1930

FINANCE

RD/WB/30. General Ledgers, 1873-1933

RD/WB/31. Estimates, Abstracts, Financial Statements, 1914-1919

RD/WB/32. Treasurer's Ledger, 1923-1927

RD/WB/34. Valuation Lists, 1929-1934

RD/WB/35. Rate Books, 1927-1934

RD/WB/38. Housing accounts, 1924-1933

RD/WB/49. Records of trading undertakings, 1926

MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH

RD/WB/57. Annual Reports, 1881-1932

RD/WB/58. Registers, 1911

Deposited by Chichester R.D.C. between September 1968 and February 1974. RD/WB/8/1 was presented by Mrs H.J. Kitch in August 1976.

A Rural Sanitary Authority was formed in August 1872 for Westbourne Union under the Public Health Act of that year. In January 1895 it became Westbourne Rural District Council under the Local Government Act of 1894.

The R.D.C. was abolished in March 1933 under the West Sussex Review Order. Its area formed part of the new Chichester Rural District Council.

The R.D.C. consisted of the following parishes: Bosham, Chidham, Compton, West Dean, Funtington, East Marden, North Marden, Up Marden, Racton, Stoughton, West Thorney, and Westbourne.

There were no major changes in the boundaries of the District or the Parishes within it. Local Government Board Orders in 1880 amalgamated the detached parts of East Marden and Stoughton with Compton and the detached parts of Stoughton with East Marden. For full details of this see Boundary Changes in West Sussex (W.S.R.O. MP 1348).