COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER-continued.

TABLE 8.-ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY, and its SUB-DIVISION into URBAN and RURAL DISTRICTS.-AREA; HOUSES 1901, and POPULATION 1891 and 1901.

TABLE 9.-COUNTY BOROUGHS, MUNICIPAL BOROUGHS, and other URBAN DISTRICTS, with their CONSTITUENT CIVIL PARISHES and WARDS.-AREA; HOUSES 1901, and POPULATION 1891 and 1901.

NOTE.-The letters C.B., M.B., and U.D. respectively denote County Borough, Municipal Borough, and Urban District; and the numbers in parenthesis following the names of the Civil Parishes refer to the Registration Districts and Sub-Districts within which the several Parishes are situated. See Table 12.

Bristol, City ofb (C.B.)... 11,705 58,235 2,346 3,146 709 289,280 328,945 151,754

Civil Parish:

Bristol (320: 1–10).

177,191

By Local Government Board Orders, Nos. 32,067 and 32,127, which came into operation on the "appointed day," 1894, the Urban District of Bisley was dissolved and its constituent Parishes added to the Rural District of Stroud.

The City of Bristol has been extended since 1891 by the following additions:-Parts of the Civil Parishes of Shirehampton and Easton in Gordano by the Bristol Corporation Act. 1895; the Urban Districts of Stapleton and St. George, and parts of the Civil Parishes of Horfield, Bri-lington, Bedminster, Long Ashton, Easton in Gordano, Portbury, and Portishead, by the Bristol Corporation Act, 1897; and parts of the Civil Parishes of Henbury and Shirehampton, by the Bristol Corporation (Docks and Railways) Act, 1901. The entire area within Bristol County Borough was formed into the single Parish of Bristol by Local Government Board Order, No. 38,597, which came into operation on 1st October, 1898, and the additions to the Borough subsequently to that date were also made to the Parish. The figures at the date of the Census for the City, as extended by the last named Act, and for the Ward affected, were as follows:Bristol, City of (C.B.) 58,312 2,348 3,147

Ward:

Horfield

11,942

716

289,599

329,366

151,967

177,399

COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER-continued.

TABLE 9-COUNTY BOROUGHS, MUNICIPAL BOROUGHS, and other URBAN DISTRICTS with their CONSTITUENT CIVIL PARISHES and WARDS.-AREA; HOUSES 1901, and POPULATION 1891 and 1901-continued.

By Local Government Board Order, No. P. 892, which was confirmed by Local Government Board Provisional Orders Confirmation Act, 1893, and came into operation on 9th November, 1893, the Municipal Borough of Cheltenham was extended to include parts of the Urban Districts of Charlton Kings and Leckhampton, the Parishes therein being added to Cheltenham Civil Parish in 1894.

By Local Government Board Order, No. 32,250, which came into operation on the “appointed day," 1894, the Rural part of the Civil Parish of Cirencester was added to the Urban District of Cirencester.

By the Gloucester Corporation Act, 1894. which came into operation on 26th March, 1896, the City and Parish of Gloucester were extended to include the Civil Parish of St. Nicholas Without; and by Local Government Board Order, No. P.1,619, which was confirmed by Local Government Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 14) Act, 1900, and came into operation on 9th November, 1900, the City and Parish were further extended to include parts of the Civil Parishes of Barnwood, Hempstead, Matson, Upton St. Leonards, and Tuffley.

d By Local Government Board Order, No. 31,998, which came into operation on the appointed day," 1894, the Rural part of the Civil Parish of Horfield was added to the Urban District of Horfield. By the Bristol Corporation Act, 1897, which came into operation on 31st October, 1897, part of the Urban District of Horfield was transferred to the City of Bristol."

CENSUS, 1901:

COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER-continued.

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TABLE 9-COUNTY BOROUGHS, MUNICIPAL BOROUGHS, and other URBAN DISTRICTS, with their CONSTITUENT CIVIL PARISHES and WARDS.-AREA; HOUSES 1901, and POPULATION 1891 and 1901-continued.

• By Local Government Board Order, No. P. 892, which was confirmed by Local Government Board Provisional Orders Confirmation Act, 1893, and came into operation on 9th November, 1893, the Urban District of Leckhampton was dissolved, and its constituent Parish added partly to the Municipal Borough of Cheltenham, and partly to the Rural District of Cheltenham

By Local Government Board Order, No. 31,997, which came into operation on the "appointed day," 1894, the Civil Parish of Nailsworth was constituted an Urban District. By the Bristol Corporation Act, 1897, which came into operation on 31st October, 1897, the Urban Districts of St. George and Stapleton were dissolved, their constituent Parishes being added to the City of Bristol.

d By Local Government Board Order, No. 31,999, which came into operation on the "appointed day," 1894, part of the Urban District of Westbury on Severn was transferred to the Rural District of Westbury on Severn. By Local Government Board Order, No. 35,366, which came into operation on 1st April, 1897, the part of the former Civil Parish of Westbury on Severn, within the Rural District of Westbury on Severn, was transferred to the Civil Parish and Urban District of Westbury on Severn.

COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER-continued.

TABLE 10.-RURAL DISTRICTS.-AREA; HOUSES 1901, and POPULATION 1891 and 1901. NOTE.-Bristol (320) is the only Registration District in the County of Gloucester which contains no Rural area; while the Poor Law Unions and Registration Districts of Chipping Sodbury (322), Thornbury (323), Dursley (324), Wheatenhurst (328), Northleach (332), and Winchcomb (334), contain no Urban District.

Under the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1894, considerable changes were made in the constitution of Rural Districts. In Gloucestershire they comprise exclusively Parishes in the Poor Law Unions of the same names, except Campden, East Dean with United Parishes, Lydney, Marston Sicca, Pebworth, Warmley, and West Dean, which consist of Parishes in the Poor Law Unions of Shipston on Stour, Westbury on Severn, Chepstow, Stratford on Avon, Evesham, Keynsham, and Monmouth respectively. The extent of each Rural District may readily be seen in the Map preceding the Tables.

By the Bristol Corporation (Docks and Railways, etc.) Act, 1901, part of Barton Regis Rural District was added to the City and County Borough of Bristol. The Rural District as thus altered, contained :18,837 | 2,954 | 24 1 130 6,565 |

42 | 12,135

14,646 |

8,081 + Parts of Faringdon and Tetbury Rural Districts are respectively in Berks and Wilts Administrative Counties; and parts of Stow on the Wold, Tewkesbury, and Winchcomb, in Worcester Administrative County. The entire Districts contain :

Faringdon

Tetbury

Stow on the Wold

Tewkesbury

Winchcomb

59,596

2,742

62

234

8

12,820

11,626

5,732

5,894

The Civil Parishes of Redmarley D'Abitot and Staunton, in the Administrative County of Worcester are, in addition, administered by the Newent Rural District Council. These Civil Parishes contain :— 5,305 | 2931 1,182 |

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CENSUS, 1901.

COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER-continued.

TABLE 11-CIVIL PARISHES in the ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY, and in each COUNTY BOROUGH.INHABITED HOUSES 1901, and POPULATION 1891 and 1901.

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NOTE.-The expression "Civil Parish" means a place for which a separate Poor Rate is or can be made, or for which a separate Overseer is or can be appointed." The Parishes are arranged alphabetically, those having compound names being placed in the order indicated by the usual pronunciation of those names-thus Great Badminton will be found under the letter G and Lower Slaughter under the letter L. The Registration Districts of the County of Gloucester are all co-extensive with the Poor Law Unions or Parishes of the same names.