It is a registration district. The only connection to the workhouse is that the Union districts were the basis of the registration districts.
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Registration districts in England and Wales were created with the introduction of civil registration on 1 July 1837 and were originally co-terminous with poor law unions. Their existence as autonomous entities came to an end in 1930, when the relevant administrative county or county borough was made responsible.