MIDHURST Rural District Council

PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES

RD/MH/1. Minutes of Council Meetings, 1872-1960

RD/MH/2. Agenda of Council Meetings, 1960-1962

RD/MH/3. Minutes of Committee Meetings, 1895-1941

RD/MH/5. Yearbooks, 1961-1964

RD/MH/8. Byelaws and Sealed Orders, 1922-1960

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT

RD/MH/12. Agreements, Contracts, Mortgages, 1933-1938

RD/MH/15. Parliamentary Deposited Plans; Certified Plans. See note in catalogue

RD/MH/16. Plans deposited for approval under byelaws

RD/MH/18. Registers of plans deposited

RD/MH/24. Miscellaneous, 1907-1955

FINANCE

RD/MH/25. Burial Board accounts

RD/MH/30. General and Housing Ledgers, 1874-1955

RD/MH/31. Estimates, Abstracts, Financial Statements, 1899-1973

RD/MH/34. Valuation Lists, 1929-1963

RD/MH/35. Rate Books, 1929-1956

SURVEYOR AND ENGINEER

RD/MH/53. Working Plans, 1880

RD/MH/55. Reports to the Council, 1895-1930

RD/MH/56. Miscellaneous, 1924-1944

MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH

RD/MH/57. Annual Reports, 1876-1972. See note in catalogue

RD/MH/58. Registers, 1911-1919

RD/MH/59. Miscellaneous, 1947

PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR

RD/MH/59A. Reports to the Council, 1938-1950

RD/MH/60. Journals and Diaries, 1929-1970

RD/MH/61. Registers, 1934-1969

RD/MH/62. Surveys, 1935-1939

PHOTOGRAPHS

RD/MH/65. Photographs

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Deposited by Midhurst R.D.C. or its successor, Chichester District Council, 1969-1979, except for RD/MH 31/2/25, which was deposited by I.Edelman, Curator of Gosport Museum, in May 1995. Note, however, that one of the earliest deposits was catalogued in the W.S.R.O. Add MSS series and the catalogue entries are merely reproduced here, while five photographs of bomb damage in Midhurst in 1943 are now catalogued in the W.S.R.O. PH series as PH 56-60.

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

Between 1872 and 1933 there were many changes in parish boundaries, and the major alterations are tabulated below. Full details of all changes may be found in Boundary Changes in West Sussex, (W.S.R.O. MP 1348).

N. and S. Ambersham : 1972 - merged with neighbouring parishes and extinguished.

[For a plan see County Council records, ref. OC/CC 7/3/11A, B].

Bepton : nil.

Chithurst : 1972 - abolished, together with Iping, Stedham and Trotton. The parishes of "Milland", "Stedham and Iping", and "Trotton with Chithurst" were formed instead.

[For a plan see County Council records, ref. OC/CC 7/3/12A, B].

Cocking : nil.

Didling : 1933 - merged with Treyford and extinguished.

Easebourne : 1972 - enlarged with part of S. Ambersham.

[For a plan see County Council records, Ref. OC/CC 7/3/11A, B].

Elsted : nil.

Fernhurst : 1972 - enlarged with part of N. Ambersham.

[For a plan see County Council records, ref. OC/CC 7/3/11A, B].

Graffham : 1933 - enlarged to take in Selham parish.

1972 - enlarged with part of S. Ambersham.

[For a plan see County Council records, ref. OC/CC 7/3/11A, B].

Harting : nil.

Heyshott : 1972 - enlarged with part of S. Ambersham.

[For a plan see County Council records, ref. OC/CC 7/3/11A, B].

Iping : 1972 - see Chithurst.

E. and W. Lavington, Linch, Linchmere : nil.

Lodsworth : 1972 - enlarged with parts of N. and S. Ambersham.

[For a plan see County Council records, ref. OC/CC 7/3/11A, B].

Lurgashall, Midhurst : nil.

Rogate : 1959 - enlarged with part of Terwick parish.

[For a plan see PM 278].

Selham : 1933 - merged with Graffham and extinguished.

Stedham : 1972 - see Chithurst.

Terwick : 1959 - merged with Rogate and Trotton and extinguished.

[For a plan see PM 278].

Tillington : nil.

Treyford : 1933 - enlarged to take in Didling parish.

Trotton : 1959 - enlarged with part of Terwick parish.

[For a plan see PM 278].

1972 - see Chithurst.

Woolbeding : nil.