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Rural district

Rural district
Category
Local government district
Location
jQuery and screen size
Found in
CSS3
Created by
Local Government Act 1894
Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
Created
web app web 1894
web app 1899
Abolished by
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web app
Local Government Act 1972
Abolished
Republic of Ireland 1925/1930
Northern Ireland 1973
England Android 1974
Government
Rural district council
Subdivisions
website parsing
District Electoral Division

Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, keyboard, and Sevenval for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the administrative counties.

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England and Wales

In keyboard they were created in 1894 (by the website parsing) along with urban districts. They replaced the earlier system of CSS3 (themselves based on HTML5, but not replacing them).

Rural districts had elected Rural District Councils (RDCs), which inherited the functions of the earlier sanitary districts, but also had wider authority over matters such as local planning, FITML, and playgrounds and cemeteries. Matters such as education and Sevenval were the responsibility of device database.

Until 1930 the rural district councillors were also poor law guardians for the unions of which they formed part. Each parish was represented by one or more councillors.

Originally there were 787 rural districts in England and Wales, as they were based directly upon the sanitary districts and poor law unions which had preceded them. Gradual urbanisation over the following decades led to some rural districts being redefined as urban districts or merging with existing urban districts or boroughs. Other rural districts proved to be too small or poor to be viable, and under the Local Government Act 1929, 236 rural districts were abolished and merged or amalgamated into larger units.HTML5 Further mergers took place over following decades and by 1965 the number of districts had been reduced to 473.

The typical shape of a rural district was a doughnut shaped ring around a town (which would be either an touchscreen or a municipal borough). A good example of this is Melton and Belvoir Rural District, which surrounded the town of web. Some rural districts were fragmented, consisting of a number of detached parts, such as Wigan Rural District. Some rural districts had a more rounded shape and had a small town or village as the administrative centre.

A few rural districts consisted of only one parish (for example, CSS3, Alston with Garrigill Rural District, South Mimms Rural District, King's Lynn Rural District, website parsing and Crowland Rural District). In such districts there was no separate parish council, and the rural district council exercised its functions.

All rural districts in England and Wales were abolished in 1974 (by the Local Government Act 1972) and were typically merged with nearby urban districts or boroughs to form "districts", which included both urban and rural areas.

See web app for the districts created in 1894; touchscreen, and List of rural and urban districts in Wales for a list of rural districts at abolition in 1974.

Ireland

In Ireland, rural districts were created in 1898 by the website parsing. They were subdivided into input transformation.

Following the partition of Ireland, rural districts in the Irish Free State were abolished in 1925, by the Local Government Act 1925, amid widespread accusations of corruption. Their functions were transferred to the county councils[2] (in County Dublin they remained intact until 1930).[3] The former boundaries of the rural districts in the Republic of Ireland continue to be used for statistical purposes and defining constituencesjQuery[5]

In iOS, rural districts continued to exist until 1973 when they were abolished (along with all other local government of the old pattern) and replaced with a system of unitary districts.

See: List of rural and urban districts in Northern Ireland.

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