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WATFORD REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Registration County : Hertfordshire.
Created
: 1.7.1837.
Sub-districts : Abbots Langley, Abbots Langley & Rickmansworth, Bushey, Rickmansworth, Watford, Watford Maternity Home
GRO volumes : VI (1837–51), 3a (1852–1946), 4B (1946–74).
Registers now held by : Hertfordshire.

Table 1: List of Places in Watford Registration District

Civil Parish

County

From

To

Comments

Abbots Langley

Hertfordshire

1837

1974

See Table 2, notes (g), (h) and (i).

Aldenham

Hertfordshire

1837

1974

See Table 2, notes (f), (j) and (k).

Bushey

Hertfordshire

1837

1894

Abolished 1894 and divided into the separate parishes of Bushey Urban and Bushey Rural.

Bushey

Hertfordshire

1906

1974

Created 1.4.1906 by renaming the parish of Bushey Rural.

Bushey Rural

Hertfordshire

1894

1906

Created 1894 from the rural part of the parish of Bushey. Abolished 1.4.1906 and renamed Bushey.

Bushey Urban

Hertfordshire

1894

1906

Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Bushey in Watford Urban District. Abolished 1.4.1906 and renamed Oxhey.

Chorleywood

Hertfordshire

1898

1974

Created 15.4.1898 out of the parish of Rickmansworth. See also Table 2, note (b).

Oxhey

Hertfordshire

1906

1935

Created 1.4.1906 by renaming the parish of Bushey Urban. Abolished 1.4.1935 and incorporated into the parish of Watford.

Rickmansworth

Hertfordshire

1837

1898

Abolished 15.4.1898 and incorporated into the parishes of Rickmansworth Urban, Rickmansworth Rural, and Chorleywood.

Rickmansworth Rural

Hertfordshire

1898

1935

Created 15.4.1898 out of the parish of Rickmansworth. Abolished 1.4.1935 and incorporated into the parishes of Rickmansworth Urban and Sarratt. See also Table 2, notes (a), (c), (d) and (e).

Rickmansworth Urban

Hertfordshire

1898

1974

Created 15.4.1898 from the part of the parish of Rickmansworth in Rickmansworth Urban District.

Sarratt

Hertfordshire

1837

1974

 

Watford

Hertfordshire

1837

1894

Abolished 1894 and divided into the separate parishes of Watford Urban and Watford Rural.

Watford

Hertfordshire

1935

1974

Created 1.4.1935 out of the parishes of Watford Urban, Oxhey, Watford Rural, and Abbots Langley.

Watford Rural

Hertfordshire

1894

1974

Created 1894 from the rural part of the parish of Watford.

Watford Urban

Hertfordshire

1894

1935

Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Watford in Watford Urban District. Abolished 1.4.1935 and incorporated into the parish of Watford.

Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Watford Registration District

Date of Change

Note

Description of Change

Population transferred

1.2.1908

(a)

Lost part of the parish of Rickmansworth Rural (which became part of the parish of Chalfont St. Peter on 1.4.1907) to Amersham registration district.

0 in 1901

(b)

Gained parts of the parish of Chorleywood (which until 1.4.1907 formed parts of the parishes of Chalfont St. Peter and Chenies) from Amersham registration district.

0 in 1901

(c)

Lost part of the parish of Rickmansworth Rural (which became part of the parish of Denham on 1.4.1907) to Eton registration district.

0 in 1901

(d)

Lost part of the parish of Rickmansworth Rural (which became part of the parish of Gerrards Cross on 1.4.1907) to Eton registration district.

0 in 1901

(e)

Gained part of the parish of Rickmansworth Rural (which until 1.4.1907 formed part of the parish of Denham) from Eton registration district.

0 in 1901

1.10.1939

(f)

Lost part of the parish of Aldenham (which became part of the parish of Elstree on 1.4.1935) to Barnet registration district.

400 in 1931

(g)

Lost parts of the parish of Abbots Langley (which became parts of the parishes of Hemel Hempstead and Kings Langley on 1.4.1935) to Hemel Hempstead registration district.

209 in 1931

(h)

Gained part of the parish of Abbots Langley (which until 1.4.1935 formed part of the parish of Kings Langley) from Hemel Hempstead registration district.

12 in 1931

(i)

Gained part of the parish of Abbots Langley (which until 1.4.1935 formed part of the parish of St. Stephen) from St. Albans registration district.

22 in 1931

(j)

Gained part of the parish of Aldenham (which until 1.4.1935 formed part of the parish of St. Stephen) from St. Albans registration district.

276 in 1931

1.4.1968

(k)

Lost part of the parish of Aldenham (which became part of the parish of Elstree on 1.4.1968) to Elstree & Potters Bar registration district.  

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