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  2. Wokingham Rural District - Wikipedia

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    Wokingham Rural District was a rural district in the county of Berkshire, England. It was created in 1894. It was named after and administered from Wokingham, though this was a separate municipal borough. Since 1 April 1974 it has formed part of the Borough of Wokingham.

  3. Borough of Wokingham - Wikipedia

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    The district was formed on 1 April 1974 as Wokingham District, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Wokingham and Wokingham Rural District. It is governed by Wokingham Borough Council (formerly Wokingham District Council), which has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1998, following the abolition of ...

  4. Wokingham - Wikipedia

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    The municipal borough of Wokingham was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, with the area merging with the surrounding Wokingham Rural District to become a new non-metropolitan district called Wokingham. District-level functions formerly performed by the borough council passed to the new Wokingham District Council. [18]

  5. Civil parishes in Berkshire - Wikipedia

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    Civil parishes in their modern sense date from the Local Government Act 1894, which abolished vestries; established elected parish councils in all rural parishes with more than 300 electors; grouped rural parishes into Rural Districts; and aligned parish boundaries with county and borough boundaries. [7]

  6. Wokingham Borough Council - Wikipedia

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    The town of Wokingham was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1885. [2] [3] The municipal borough was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, merging with the surrounding Wokingham Rural District to become a new non-metropolitan district called Wokingham.

  7. List of rural and urban districts in England in 1973 - Wikipedia

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    Wokingham Rural District: Wokingham Reading was a county borough. Buckingham. District Successor Amersham Rural District: Chiltern: Aylesbury Borough Aylesbury Vale:

  8. History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in ...

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    Wokingham was re-established, comprising the borough of Wokingham and rural areas to the south and east of Reading, transferred from Newbury, and extending eastwards to include the Rural District of Easthampstead (which incorporated Bracknell), transferred from Windsor. Berkshire 1950–1955: 1955

  9. Category:Former districts of Berkshire - Wikipedia

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    Wokingham Rural District This page was last edited on 21 November 2019, at 20:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...