File talk:Melbourn RD 1894.png

These maps are in general a very useful way of illustrating articles on the old administrative districts. However, I believe the inclusion of the "Royston RD" on this map is inaccurate. Whilst this is presumably based on Vision of Britain (citing F. Youngs, 1979), those secondary sources are contradicted by the Local Government Board orders and contemporary press coverage from 1894 which I have cited on Melbourn Rural District. The three Essex parishes from the Royston Rural Sanitary District were administered as part of Melbourn Rural District from its establishment in December 1894, with the anomalous thing about them being that they temporarily remained in the administrative county of Essex until September 1895, not that that they were a separate rural district. The southern boundary of the Melbourn district around Royston is also showing the post-1896 position after the northern parts of Royston town had been transferred to Hertfordshire, so having the map dated 1894 isn't quite right either. Stortford (talk) 17:48, 5 September 2021 (UTC)