Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire

A civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England.

[4] The Public Health Act 1872 grouped parishes into Rural Sanitary Districts, based on the Poor Law Unions; these subsequently formed the basis for RDs.

[7] Urban civil parishes continued to exist, and were generally coterminous with the Urban District, Municipal Borough or County Borough in which they were situated; many large towns contained a number of parishes, and these were usually merged into one.

[9] Recent governments have encouraged the formation of town and parish councils in unparished areas, and the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 gave local residents the right to demand the creation of a new civil parish.

[11] 1including South Trumpington 2including part of Northstowe This table covers the whole area now covered by the present county of Cambridgeshire and unitary authority of Peterborough, plus any areas of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely that now lie in other counties.