Cranbrook Registration District

CRANBROOK REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Registration County : Kent.
Created : 1.7.1837.
Abolished : 1.4.1941 (incorporated into Maidstone registration district).
Sub-districts : Cranbrook, Hawkhurst.
GRO volumes : V (1837–51), 2a (1852–1941).
Registers now held by : Kent.

Table 1: List of Places in Cranbrook Registration District

Civil Parish	County	From	To	Comments
Benenden	Kent	1837	1941	See Table 2, note (b).
Cranbrook	Kent	1837	1941	See Table 2, note (b).
Frittenden	Kent	1837	1941	See Table 2, note (b).
Goudhurst	Kent	1837	1941	See Table 2, note (b).
Hawkhurst	Kent and Sussex	1837	1886	On 25.3.1886 the Sussex part of the parish of Hawkhurst became part of the parish of Etchingham, so that thereafter Hawkhurst was wholly in Kent. See also Table 2, notes (a) and (b).
Hawkhurst	Kent	1886	1941
Sandhurst	Kent	1837	1941	See Table 2, note (b).

Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Cranbrook Registration District

Date of Change	Note	Description of Change	Population transferred
25.3.1886	(a)	Lost the Sussex part of the parish of Hawkhurst (which became part of the parish of Etchingham on 25.3.1886) to Ticehurst registration district.	10 in 1891
1.4.1941 (abolished)	(b)	Lost the constituent parishes of Benenden, Cranbrook, Frittenden, Goudhurst, Hawkhurst, and Sandhurst, to Maidstone registration district	12927 in 1931

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