Oakham Rural District

Oakham
Motto: Parva Componere Magnis (To compare great things with small)
Geography
Status	Rural district
1911 area	52,553 acres (212.67 km2)
1961 area	52,553 acres (212.67 km2)
HQ	Catmose, Oakham
History
Origin	Rural sanitary district
Created	1894
Abolished	1974
Succeeded by	Rutland
Demography
1901 population	6,761
1971 population	10,851
Politics
Governance	Oakham Rural District Council
Subdivisions
Type	Civil parishes

Oakham was a rural district in Rutland, England from 1894 to 1974, covering the north of the county.

The rural district had its origins in the Oakham Rural Sanitary District, formed in 1875. Oakham RSD had an identical area to Oakham poor law union, and consisted of thirty-one civil parishes of which twenty-nine were in Rutland and two in Leicestershire.

The Local Government Act 1894 redesignated the area as Oakham Rural District, at the same time transferring the Leicestershire parishes of Cold Overton and Knossington to Melton Mowbray Rural District.

The rural district included the town of Oakham until 1911, when it was constituted a separate urban district.^[1] The Rural District Council continued to be based in the town, however.^[2]

Parishes

The rural district consisted of the following parishes:^[3]

• Ashwell
• Barleythorpe
• Barrow
• Braunston
• Brooke
• Burley
• Cottesmore
• Edith Weston
• Egleton
• Empingham
• Exton
• Greetham
• Gunthorpe
• Hambleton
• Horn
• Langham
• Leighfield
• Lyndon
• Manton
• Martinsthorpe
• Normanton
• Oakham (until 1911)
• Market Overton
• Stretton
• Teigh
• Thistleton
• Tickencote
• Whissendine
• Whitwell

References

1. ^ "Oakham RD". Vision of Britain. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10002746&c_id=10001043. Retrieved 2008-06-27. []
2. ^ London Gazette: no. 45472. p. 45472. 1971-09-16.
3. ^ F A Youngs Jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.II: Northern England, London, 1991

Coordinates: 52°41′N 0°40′W / 52.69°N 0.67°W / 52.69; -0.67