created under the Local Government Act 1894 and superseded Woodstock Rural Sanitary Authority
Under the Oxfordshire Review Order 1932 the district was abolished and parishes transferred to successor authorities: Banbury, Chipping Norton, Ploughley and Witney Rural Districts; please see F A Youngs 'Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England' for a list of parishes and boundary changes
Responsibilities included public health, housing, rating, planning, building regulations, water supplies, sewerage, some roads
The collection includes records of Woodstock Rural Sanitary Authority
The collection was originally catalogued as Woodstock RDC (accession numbers 921 & 1125)
Recatalogued by Della Fredericks and Chris Gilliam with additional records from accessions 3560
Date completed: Aug 2012