Rural poor often ate squirrel, possum, rabbit and other woodland animals.

Rural areas differ from the urban in terms of poverty, fertility rates, and other social factors.

One was that of splitting Suffolk into two unitary authorities – Ipswich & Felixstowe and Rural Suffolk ; and the other, that of creating a single county-wide controlling authority – the " One Suffolk " option.

Rural Radiotelephone Service ( RRTS ) provides basic, analog communications service between locations deemed so remote that traditional wireline service or service by other means is not feasible.

Rural ecovillages are usually based on organic farming, permaculture and other approaches which promote ecosystem function and biodiversity.

Examples include electoral districts such as Washington's 6th congressional district and Tennessee's 1st congressional district ; school districts such as Granite School District and Los Angeles Unified School District ; economic districts such as the Reedy Creek Improvement District ; metropolitan areas such as the Seattle metropolitan area, and metropolitan districts such as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, as well as other local districts like the York Rural Sanitary District, the Delaware River Port Authority, the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, and C-TRAN.

Rural Texas in the early 20th Century was often connected by unpaved routes, often of caliche or other rock and dirt paths.

The Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, under the leadership of the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, is responsible for the overall Irish Government policy with respect to the Gaeltacht, and supervises the work of the Údarás na Gaeltachta and other bodies.

Circuit Riders and other technicians from the Mississippi Rural Water Association worked with the city staff, local contractors and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency to restore water service.

The Crocker area has four elected governing bodies, each of which is independent of each other: the city of Crocker, the Crocker R-II School District, the Crocker Rural Fire Protection District, and Pulaski County Water Supply District No. 2.

The western three-quarters of the township is governed by regulation by the New Jersey Pinelands Commission, which places major limitations on development in that portion of the township, which remains as pine forest with a distinctly rural character, with other portions designated as a Rural Development Area.

Only one Wheatfield Fire company ( Shawnee ) runs an ambulance, the other Town Fire Companies contract with either Tri-Community Ambulance Service Inc., Twin City Ambulance, or Rural / Metro Medical Services of Western New York.

The Rural eventually incorporated several other newspapers, including the Advocate, the Searchlight, and the Gazette, to become the Llano News by the early 1900s.

The RUS is one of three agencies ( the other two are Rural Business-Cooperative Service and the Rural Housing Service ) that are part of the USDA's Rural Development Bureau.

Because of the financial nature of the agency's work, the administrator and associated staff work closely with two other agencies that are not part of the USDA, the Federal Financing Bank ( FFB )-- and the former Rural Telephone Bank ( RTB ), which was dissolved in 2006.

Rinnan has received other awards, including the Medal of Honour from the King of Norway, the inaugural Tampa Award from the Australian organisation Rural Australians for Refugees, the AFRAS Gold Medal from the Association for Rescue at Sea and he was named Captain of the Year 2001 by the Nautical Institute and shipping journal Lloyds List.

Major banks include Allied Bank, Rural Bank of Puerto Galera, Maxbank, and other microfinance bank.

When the National Dairy Development Board expanded the scope of Operation Flood to cover the entire country in its Phase 2 program in 1979: Kurien founded the Institute of Rural Management Anand ( IRMA ). Kurien, played a key role in many other organizations, like chairing the Viksit Bharat Foundation, a body set up by the President of India.

For his trade union organising activities and socialist beliefs, Hunter was blacklisted on the coalfields, so he instead worked as an organiser for the shearers ' union and the Wellington Rural Workers ' Union, and in various other jobs.

In addition to the original town, 1932 saw a major expansion of the borough, to add Milton ( previously an urban district ) and the parishes of Milford on Sea and Pennington, and parts of other parishes, from Lymington Rural District-this extended the borough west along the coast to the border with Christchurch.

His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.

In 1974 St Albans City Council, St Albans Rural District Council and Harpenden Town Council were merged to form St Albans District Council ( part of a much wider local government reorganisation ).

Bloch's own ideas on rural history were best expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society ( 1939 ).

Although there were elected legislators, from its inception, it was actually a largely one-party dictatorship apart from some minor parties, including the Chinese Youth Party, the National Socialist Party and the Rural Construction Party, with suppression of dissent within the KMT of communists.

The old city of Porvoo was formally disestablished and the new city of Porvoo founded in 1997 when the city of Porvoo and the Rural municipality of Porvoo were consolidated.

* Hangleton, Preston Rural and West Blatchington were added to Hove in 1928

The Brethren were also instrumental in establishing the Christian Rural Overseas Program ( CROP ), which was originally housed at Bethany Biblical Seminary, the Brethren Seminary in Chicago.

At the strategic level, there were ten non-executive board members, who were led by Chairman Tony Hales, and appointed by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Scottish Government ( eight by the former and two by the latter ).

The Campaign to Protect Rural England said in July 2006 that many AONBs were under greater threat than ever before.

) Other subdivision names such as " East Bank " and " Rural Acres " were used as place names for the area at the time.

Rural electrification was not expanding rapidly ; and private power companies in Nebraska were only willing to buy a small fraction of the project's power.

The Piedmont Center of the Arts and The Ford Place Restaurant, Pub & Special Events Center were two projects which were successfully created as a result of funds from the North Carolina Rural Center.

Singapore has a highly centralised, unitary government with a unicameral legislature ( the City Council and the Rural Board were abolished in the 1960s ).

Rural burhs were smaller and usually consisted of a wooden hall with a wall enclosing various domestic buildings along with an entrance tower called a burh-geat, which was apparently used for ceremonial purposes.

The civil parish councils were governed by Ely Rural District council from 1894 until 1974.

In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, rural sanitary districts became rural districts, but were required to be entirely within one county or another-this led to Disley, the only Cheshire parish of the sanitary district, to form the Disley Rural District on its own-one of only a few single-parish rural districts to exist.

At the same time, its offices in Hartford near Northwich ( the former headquarters of Northwich Rural District Council ) and at Castle Park in Frodsham ( the former headquarters of Runcorn Rural District Council ) were downgraded.

Chapin's remains were interred in the Huntington Rural Cemetery, Huntington, New York.

The parish of Quinton became part of Birmingham on 9 November 1909 and two years later, under what was termed ' The Greater Birmingham Scheme ', the Boroughs of Aston Manor, the Urban Districts of Handsworth and Erdington, part of the Urban District of Kings Norton and Northfield and the Rural District of Yardley were all incorporated.

In 1951 parts of the Limehurst Rural District were added to the County Borough of Oldham, and in 1954 further parts of the same district added to it on its abolition.

* East Westmorland RD, most of West Ward RD and Shap UD were merged to form North Westmorland Rural District