the hamlets of Upton and Lynstone.

When elected parish and district councils were established by the Local Government Act 1894, the parish of Stratton was included in the Stratton Rural District. In 1900 most of the civil parish of Stratton, including the towns of Stratton and Bude, together with Upton and Lynstone, and also Flexbury from the civil parish of Poughill, were