Saffron Walden Rural District was a rural district

Rural district

Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the administrative counties.-England and Wales:In England...

 in the county

County

A county is a jurisdiction of local government in certain modern nations. Historically in mainland Europe, the original French term, comté, and its equivalents in other languages denoted a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count A county is a jurisdiction of local government in certain...

 of Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

, England

England

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. It was created in 1894 and later enlarged by the addition of the parishes of Berden

Berden

Berden is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located north from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire and is northwest from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden...

, Birchanger

Birchanger

Birchanger is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located northeast from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire and is northwest from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden...

, Elsenham

Elsenham

Elsenham is a small village in north west Essex in southern England. Its neighbouring towns include Bishop's Stortford, Saffron Walden, and Stansted Mountfitchet.-History:...

, Farnham

Farnham, Essex

Farnham is a small village in Essex, England, situated near Bishop's Stortford. The main features are the primary school, the church and the Three Horseshoes pub in Hazel End, which some consider a hamlet in its own right. The population is approximately 300...

, Henham-on-the-Hill, Manuden

Manuden

Manuden is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located north of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire and is northwest of the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden...

, Stansted Mountfitchet

Stansted Mountfitchet

Stansted Mountfitchet is a village and civil parish in the county of Essex, England, near the Hertfordshire border, north of London. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,533. The village is served by Stansted Mountfitchet railway station....

 and Ugley

Ugley

Ugley is a small hamlet in the non-metropolitan district of Uttlesford in Essex, England. It is about a mile north of Stansted Mountfitchet, and located between Saffron Walden and Bishop's Stortford....

 from the disbanded Stansted Rural District

Stansted Rural District

Stansted was a rural district in Essex, England from 1894 to 1934.It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of the Bishop's Stortford rural sanitary district which was in Essex .It consisted of the following parishes*Berden*Birchanger*Elsenham*Farnham*Great...

. It was named after and administered from Saffron Walden

Saffron Walden

Saffron Walden is a medium-sized market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It is located north of Bishop's Stortford, south of Cambridge and approx north of London...

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Since April 1, 1974 it has formed part of the District of Uttlesford

Uttlesford

Uttlesford is a local government district in Essex, England. Its council is based in Saffron Walden.Its name is derived from the ancient Hundred of the same name....

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At the time of its dissolution it consisted of the following 31 civil parishes.

• Arkesden
  Arkesden
  Arkesden is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located southwest of Saffron Walden, is around 6 miles from Bishop's Stortford in nearby Hertfordshire and is northwest from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Uttlesford and the parliamentary...
  
  
• Ashdon
  Ashdon
  Ashdon is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located about northeast of Saffron Walden and is northwest from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Uttlesford and the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden...
  
  
• Berden
  Berden
  Berden is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located north from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire and is northwest from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden...
  
  
• Birchanger
  Birchanger
  Birchanger is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located northeast from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire and is northwest from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden...
  
  
• Chrishall
  Chrishall
  Chrishall is a small village in the English county of Essex. It is located south of Cambridge and lies equidistant [] between the two medieval market towns of Saffron Walden and Royston...
  
  
• Clavering
  Clavering, Essex
  Clavering is a village and also a parish in north-west Essex in England. The name 'Clavering' means 'place where clover grows'.-Location and local area:...
  
  
• Debden
  Debden, Uttlesford
  Debden is a small rural village in the Uttlesford district of Essex in the East of England.It is located 4 miles from Saffron Walden and 17 miles from Cambridge.RAF Debden is nearby and played a role in the Second World War....
  
  
• Elmdon
  Elmdon
  Elmdon is a village in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, near the boundary with Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. The undulating nature of the local topography differentiates it from countryside to the north which is predominantly fenland and flat....
  
  
• Elsenham
  Elsenham
  Elsenham is a small village in north west Essex in southern England. Its neighbouring towns include Bishop's Stortford, Saffron Walden, and Stansted Mountfitchet.-History:...
  
  
• Farnham
  Farnham, Essex
  Farnham is a small village in Essex, England, situated near Bishop's Stortford. The main features are the primary school, the church and the Three Horseshoes pub in Hazel End, which some consider a hamlet in its own right. The population is approximately 300...
  
  
• Great Chesterford
  Great Chesterford
  Great Chesterford is a medium sized village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It is located north of Bishop's Stortford, south of Cambridge and about north of London.- History :...
  
  
• Great Sampford
  Great Sampford
  Great Sampford is a village and civil parish on the B1053 road and the B1051 road in the Uttlesford District, in the English county of Essex. The village includes a primary school, two places of worship and a pub. It is located near the towns of Thaxted, Saffron Walden and Haverhill. It used to...
  
  
• Hadstock
  Hadstock
  Hadstock is a village in Essex, England, about from Saffron Walden. It is on the county boundary with Cambridgeshire and about from Cambridge. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 320....
  
  
• Hempstead
  Hempstead, Essex
  Hempstead is a village near Saffron Walden, in Essex. It is situated on a relatively quiet road, from Saffron Walden to Steeple Bumpstead.The village is the birthplace of Dick Turpin, and is also the final resting place of Doctor William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of blood....
  
  
• Henham-on-the-Hill
• Langley
  Langley, Essex
  Langley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Essex, seven miles west-south-west of Saffron Walden. The Parish of Langley consists of two parts, Langley Upper Green and Langley Lower Green which are linked by roads and footpaths...
  
  
• Littlebury
  Littlebury
  Littlebury is a small village in north-west Essex. It has a population of around 600 which includes the two hamlets of Littlebury Green and Catmere End...
  
  
• Little Chesterford
  Little Chesterford
  Little Chesterford is a small village and civil parish in Uttlesford Essex, eastern England and close to the Cambridgeshire border. It is built principally along a single sunken lane to the east of a tributary of the River Cam or Granta...
  
  
• Little Sampford
  Little Sampford
  Little Sampford is a village and a civil parish on the B1053 road, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England.- External links :* http://www.recordinguttlesfordhistory.org.uk/littlesampford/littlesampford.html...
  
  
• Manuden
  Manuden
  Manuden is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located north of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire and is northwest of the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Uttlesford and in the parliamentary constituency of Saffron Walden...
  
  
• Newport
  Newport, Essex
  Newport is a large village in Essex near Saffron Walden, in which Newport Free Grammar School is located. The village has a population of just over 2,000....
  
  
• Quendon and Rickling
  Quendon and Rickling
  Quendon and Rickling is a civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 514. The parish was created in the 1940s by the merger of Quendon and Rickling parishes....
  
  
• Radwinter
  Radwinter
  Radwinter is a village and a civil parish on the B1054 road, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. Radwinter has a church called St Mary the Virgin Church. and a primary school...
  
  
• Stansted Mountfitchet
  Stansted Mountfitchet
  Stansted Mountfitchet is a village and civil parish in the county of Essex, England, near the Hertfordshire border, north of London. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 5,533. The village is served by Stansted Mountfitchet railway station....
  
  
• Strethall
  Strethall
  Strethall is a village and a civil parish in the Uttlesford District, in the English county of Essex, near the town of Saffron Walden.Having received no losses in World War one it is known as one of the thankful villages....
  
  
• Ugley
  Ugley
  Ugley is a small hamlet in the non-metropolitan district of Uttlesford in Essex, England. It is about a mile north of Stansted Mountfitchet, and located between Saffron Walden and Bishop's Stortford....
  
  
• Wenden Lofts
• Wendens Ambo
  Wendens Ambo
  Wendens Ambo is a small village of approximately four hundred people in Essex, England. Its unusual name originates from the joining of two villages, Great and Little Wenden, to form Wendens Ambo, meaning "both Wendens".- Situation :...
  
  
• Wicken Bonhunt
  Wicken Bonhunt
  Wicken Bonhunt is a small village in Essex population of about 200.-External links:...
  
  
• Widdington
  Widdington
  Widdington is a village and a civil parish near Saffron Walden, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. The village is located near the M11 motorway. Widdington has a church called St Mary the Virgin, Widdington and a barn called Prior's Hall Barn.- External links :* * *...
  
  
• Wimbish
  Wimbish
  Wimbish is a village and civil parish within Uttlesford, in Essex, England.The first recorded mention of the village was in 1042, when it was referred to as Winebisc. It was subsequently referred to as Wimbeis in the Domesday Book....