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TitleCaxton and Arrington Board of Guardians (Poor Law Union)
DescriptionFollowing the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834 Boards of Guardians were appointed to administer groups of parishes in poor law unions, and were empowered to build workhouses. Various additional duties were added over time (such as vaccination from 1840, rate assessment from 1862).

In 1930 workhouses were renamed Public Assistance Institutions and were removed from Guardians' control to be placed under the control of County Councils; further records can be found in County Council Public Assistance Committee minutes.

Surviving records of Caxton and Arrington Union include: minutes; papers about property; financial records; records of the relieving officer; registers of births and deaths; records of vaccination.

Caxton and Arrington Union covered the parishes of:
Arrington
Bourn
Caldecote
Caxton
Croxton
Croydon-cum-Clopton
East Hatley
Elsworth
Eltisley
Gamlingay
Great Eversden
Great Gransden (Huntingdonshire)
Hardwick
Hatley St George
Kingston
Knapwell
Little Eversden
Little Gransden
Longstowe
Orwell
Papworth Agnes
Papworth Everard
Tadlow
Toft
Wimpole
Yelling (Huntingdonshire)
Date1835-1930
CreatorNameCaxton and Arrington Board of Guardians (Poor Law Union)
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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