Thedwastre 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Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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 West Suffolk

West Suffolk

West Suffolk was an administrative county of England created in 1889 from part of the county of Suffolk. It survived until 1974 when it was rejoined with East Suffolk. Its county town was Bury St Edmunds....

, England from 1894 to 1974. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894

Local Government Act 1894

The Local Government Act 1894 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The Act followed the reforms carried out at county level under the Local Government Act 1888...

, from the part of the Stow Rural Sanitary District which was in West Suffolk (the rest forming East Stow Rural District

East Stow Rural District

East Stow was a rural district in East Suffolk, England from 1894 to 1934.It was created under the Local Government Act 1894, from the part of the Stow rural sanitary district that was in East Suffolk It was abolished in 1934 under a County Review Order...

 in East Suffolk

East Suffolk

East Suffolk, along with West Suffolk, was created in 1888 as an administrative county of England. The administrative county was based on the eastern quarter sessions division of Suffolk...

). It was named after the historic hundred

Hundred (division)

A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in England, Wales, Denmark, South Australia, some parts of the United States, Germany , Sweden, Finland and Norway, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions...

 of Thedwastre

Thedwastre Hundred

Thedwastre was a hundred of the county of Suffolk, England covering an area of . It formed part of the Liberty of St Edmund, under the jurisdiction of the abbots of Bury St Edmunds....

.

The district was abolished in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972

Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974....

, and went to form part of the Mid Suffolk

Mid Suffolk

Mid Suffolk is a local government district in Suffolk, England. Its council is based in Needham Market, and the largest town is Stowmarket.The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Borough of Eye, Stowmarket urban district, Gipping Rural District, Hartismere Rural District and...

 district in Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

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Parishes

The rural district comprised the following civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

es:

• Ampton
  Ampton
  Ampton is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about five miles north of Bury St Edmunds.According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is Amma's homestead. The Domesday Book records the population of Ampton in 1086 to be 23...
  
  
• Beyton
  Beyton
  Beyton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is homestead by brook or Beaga's homestead.The Domesday Book records the population of Beyton in 1086 to be 1 free man...
  
  
• Bradfield Combust
  Bradfield Combust
  Bradfield Combust is a village in Suffolk, England. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name of "Bradfield" is "the wide fold" . "Combust" is derived from "Combusta" Latin fem. = burnt or burned; medieval syn...
  
  
• Bradfield St Clare
• Drinkstone
  Drinkstone
  Drinkstone is a small settlement in Suffolk, England. It is near the A14 road and is southeast of the town of Bury St Edmunds....
  
  
• Felsham
  Felsham
  Felsham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2005 its population was 420.-History:The origin of the name "Felsham" is not clear, but one theory gives its meaning as Faela or "pleasant enclosure". Felsham was listed as Fealsham in the Domesday...
  
  
• Fornham St Genevieve
  Fornham St Genevieve
  Fornham St Genevieve is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around 500m north of Fornham_St_Martin and a mile and half north of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 110...
  
  
• Fornham St Martin
  Fornham St Martin
  Fornham St Martin is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the northern outskirts of Bury St Edmunds off east and west from the A134, in 2005 its population was 1300...
  
  
• Gedding
  Gedding
  Gedding is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around six miles south east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 130....
  
  
• Great Barton
  Great Barton
  Great Barton is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about three miles from Bury St Edmunds. According to Eilert Ekwall, the meaning of the village name is barley enclosure/demesne farm or outlying grange...
  
  
• Great Livermere
  Great Livermere
  Great Livermere is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around four miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 230....
  
  
• Great Welnetham
• Hessett
  Hessett
  Hessett is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around four miles south east of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 490....
  
  
• Little Welnetham
• Pakenham
  Pakenham, Suffolk
  Pakenham is a village in the English county of Suffolk.It is to the east of Bury St. Edmunds and it administered as part of the borough of St Edmundsbury, until local government reorganisation in 1974 it was part of Thingoe Rural District...
  
  
• Rattlesden
  Rattlesden
  Rattlesden is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around four miles west of Stowmarket, the parish also includes the hamlets of Hightown Green and Poystreet Green. Its large and ancient church, St. Nicholas, dates from the 13th century and...
  
  
• Rougham
  Rougham
  Rougham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.It covers an area of and had a population of 152 in 69 households as of the 2001 census.For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland....
  
  
• Rushbrooke
  Rushbrooke
  Rushbrooke is an urban area on the western side of Cobh on Great Island in Cork Harbour, Ireland. It is in the townland of Ringacoltig .The townland is Ringacoltig, an anglicised version of the original Irish name....
  
  
• Stanningfield
  Stanningfield
  Stanningfield is a village in the parish of Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield, in the St Edmundsbury District, in the English county of Suffolk. The village also consists of the area Hoggard's Green...
  
  
• Thurston
  Thurston, Suffolk
  Thurston is a village in Suffolk situated about four miles east of Bury St Edmunds. As of mid-2005, Thurston's estimated population was 3,260. It is recorded in the Domesday book as Thurstuna and Torstuna.-Services:...
  
  
• Timworth
  Timworth
  Timworth is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around two miles north of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 50....
  
  
• Tostock
  Tostock
  Tostock is a small village around eight miles east of Bury St. Edmunds in the county of Suffolk. It is a very traditional Suffolk village, with a good example of a fourteenth century church....
  
  
• Woolpit
  Woolpit
  Woolpit is a village in the English county of Suffolk, midway between the towns of Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket As of 2007 it has a population of 2030. It is notable for the 12th-century legend of the green children of Woolpit and for its parish church, which has especially fine medieval woodwork...