History of Rutland

Rutland covered parts of three poor law unions and rural sanitary districts (RSDs): those of Oakham, Uppingham and Stamford.

[1] In the Second World War, the county became home to three Royal Air Force stations, opened at Cottesmore, North Luffenham and Woolfox Lodge.

Rutland was included in the "East Midlands General Review Area" of the 1958–1967 Local Government Commission for England.

Draft recommendations would have seen Rutland split, with Ketton Rural District going along with Stamford to a new administrative county of Cambridgeshire, and the western part be added to Leicestershire.

[4] This victory was to prove only temporary, with Rutland being included in the new non-metropolitan county of Leicestershire under the Local Government Act 1972, from 1 April 1974.