Hadham Rural District
Hadham Rural District was a rural district in Hertfordshire, England from 1894 to 1935, covering an area in the east of the county. Evolution The district had its origins in the Bishop's Stortford Rural Sanitary District. This had been created in 1872, giving public health and local government responsibilities for rural areas to the existing boards of guardians of poor law unions. The Bishop's Stortford Rural Sanitary District surrounded but did not include the town of Bishop's Stortford, which had a local board. Under the Local Government Act 1894, rural sanitary districts became rural districts from 28 December 1894. Where they straddled county boundaries, as Bishop's Stortford Rural Sanitary District did, they were to be split into separate rural districts in each county, unless boundary changes could be agreed. In July 1894, a joint committee of Hertfordshire and Essex County Councils narrowly decided (on the chairman's casting vote) to transfer the ten Essex parishes of the Bishop's Stortford Rural Sanitary District into Hertfordshire. The proposal was not popular with the Essex parishes, and at a public meeting in October 1894 the councils reversed the decision, deciding instead to allow the Essex parishes to become a separate rural district called the