Moulton Rural District

Moulton
Moulton
	; Location within West Suffolk, 1894;
History
• Created	1894
• Abolished	1935
• Succeeded by	Mildenhall & Clare RDs
Status	Rural district

Moulton was a rural district in Suffolk, England from 1894 to 1935. It covered the area to the east of the town of Newmarket.

The district was created in 1894 as the part of the Newmarket rural sanitary district which lay in West Suffolk, the Cambridgeshire part becoming Newmarket Rural District.^[1]

It was abolished in 1935 and most of the district (the parishes of Dalham, Gazeley, Higham Green and Moulton) became part of Mildenhall Rural District, which merged with Newmarket urban district in 1974 to create the modern Forest Heath district. The parishes of Lidgate and Ousden instead became part of Clare Rural District in 1935, went to St Edmundsbury which is now in West Suffolk.

Statistics

Year	Area^[2]		Population ^[3]	Density (pop/ha)
Year	acres	ha	Population ^[3]	Density (pop/ha)
1911	14,601	5,909	8,311	1.41
1921			7,990	1.35
1931			7,815	1.32

^ "Moulton RD through time: Census tables with data for the Local Government District". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
^ "Moulton RD through time: Population Statistics: Area (acres)". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
^ "Moulton RD through time: Population Statistics: Total Population". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 8 July 2017.