Under the Local Government Act 1894 urban sanitary authorities
(boroughs, local boards of health and improvement commissioners)
and rural sanitary authorities became Urban District Councils (UDC)
and Rural District Councils (RDC) respectively.
The RDCs and UDCs that covered the area that is now within the
boundaries of Peterborough Unitary Authority were Barnack RDC,
Peterborough RDC, Thorney RDC, Norman Cross RDC and Old Fletton UDC
(Peterborough Municipal Borough covered the central 'city'
area).
In 1974 all of these UDCs, RDCs and the borough were abolished;
Old Fletton UDC, Barnack RDC, Peterborough RDC, Thorney RDC and
Peterborough Municipal Borough were transferred to Peterborough
District Council (known as Peterborough City Council) and the
Norman Cross RDC was split between Huntingdon (later
Huntingdonshire) District Council and Peterborough.
See Peterborough City
Council for details of where these district
council records are held.
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