Chatham Registration District

CHATHAM REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Registration County : Kent.
Created : 1.4.1941 (out of Medway, Gravesend, Strood & Hoo, and Hollingbourne registration districts).
Abolished : 1.4.1998 (to become Medway registration district).
Sub-districts : Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester.
GRO volumes : 2a (1941–46), 5B (1946–65), 5F (1965–74), 16 (1974–92).
Registers currently held at : Medway.

Table 1: List of Places in Chatham Registration District

Civil Parish	County	From	To	Comments
Allhallows	Kent	1941	1998	See Table 2, notes (d) and (k).
Chatham	Kent	1941	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 to become an unparished area. See also Table 2, note (c).
Chatham	Kent	1974	1998	Unparished area which until 1.4.1974 formed the parish and municipal borough of Chatham.
Cliffe	Kent	1941	1998	See Table 2, notes (d) and (k).
Cobham	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, notes (d) and (i).
Cooling	Kent	1941	1998	See Table 2, notes (d) and (k).
Cuxton	Kent	1941	1998	See Table 2, notes (d) and (k).
Frindsbury Extra	Kent	1941	1998	See Table 2, notes (d) and (k).
Gillingham	Kent	1941	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 to become an unparished area. See also Table 2, notes (b) and (c).
Gillingham	Kent	1974	1998	Unparished area which until 1.4.1974 formed the parish and municipal borough of Gillingham. See also Table 2, notes (j) and (k).
Gravesend	Kent	1941	1952	See Table 2, notes (a), (e) and (g).
Halling	Kent	1941	1998	See Table 2, notes (d) and (k).
High Halstow	Kent	1941	1998	See Table 2, notes (d) and (k).
Higham	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, notes (d) and (i).
Hoo	Kent	1941	1968	Abolished 1.4.1968 to become parts of the parishes of Hoo St. Werburgh and Frindsbury Extra. See also Table 2, note (d).
Hoo St. Werburgh	Kent	1968	1998	Created 1.4.1968 out of the parishes of Hoo, Cooling, and Frindsbury Extra. See also Table 2, note (k).
Isle of Grain	Kent	1941	1998	See Table 2, notes (d) and (k).
Luddesdown	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, notes (d) and (i).
Meopham	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, notes (d), (h) and (i).
Northfleet	Kent	1941	1952	See Table 2, notes (d) and (g).
Rochester	Kent	1941	1974	Abolished 1.4.1974 to become an unparished area. See also Table 2, notes (c) and (f).
Rochester	Kent	1974	1998	Unparished area which until 1.4.1974 formed the parish and municipal borough of Rochester. See also Table 2, note (k).
St. Mary Hoo	Kent	1941	1998	See Table 2, notes (d) and (k).
Shorne	Kent	1941	1974	See Table 2, notes (d) and (i).
Stoke	Kent	1941	1998	See Table 2, notes (d) and (k).

Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Chatham Registration District

Date of Change	Note	Description of Change	Population transferred
1.4.1941 (created)	(a)	Gained the parish of Gravesend from Gravesend registration district.	35495 in 1931
	(b)	Gained part of the parish of Gillingham (which until 1.4.1934 formed part of the parish of Bredhurst) from Hollingbourne registration district.	142 in 1931
	(c)	Gained the parishes of Chatham, Gillingham, and Rochester, from Medway registration district.	123106 in 1931
	(d)	Gained the parishes of Allhallows, Cliffe, Cobham, Cooling, Cuxton, Frindsbury Extra, Halling, High Halstow, Higham, Hoo, Isle of Grain, Luddesdown, Meopham, Northfleet, St. Mary Hoo, Shorne, and Stoke, from Strood & Hoo registration district.	33756 in 1931
	(e)	Gained part of the parish of Gravesend (which until 1.4.1935 formed the parishes of Chalk and Denton, and parts of the parishes of Cobham, Ifield, and Northfleet) from Strood & Hoo registration district.	2175 in 1931
	(f)	Gained part of the parish of Rochester (which until 1.4.1934 formed the parishes of Frindsbury Intra and Strood Intra, and parts of the parishes of Frindsbury Extra and Strood Extra) from Strood & Hoo registration district.	13779 in 1931
1.10.1952	(g)	Lost the parishes of Gravesend and Northfleet to Dartford registration district.
1.4.1968	(h)	Gained part of the parish of Meopham (which until 1.4.1968 formed part of the parish of Trottiscliffe) from Maidstone registration district,
1.4.1974	(i)	Lost the parishes of Cobham, Higham, Luddesdown, Meopham, and Shorne, to Dartford registration district.	15774 in 1971
1.4.1983	(j)	Gained part of the unparished area of Gillingham (which until 1.4.1983 formed part of the parish of Upchurch) from Swale registration district.
1.4.1998 (abolished)	(k)	Lost the constituent parishes of Allhallows, Cliffe, Cooling, Cuxton, Frindsbury Extra, Halling, High Halstow, Hoo St. Werburgh, Isle of Grain, St. Mary Hoo, and Stoke, and the unparished areas of Chatham, Gillingham, and Rochester, to Medway registration district.

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