Doncaster Rural District
| Doncaster | |
|---|---|
| Area | |
| • 1901 | 90,373 acres (366 km2) |
| • 1931 | 77,865 acres (315 km2) |
| • 1961 | 75,094 acres (304 km2) |
| Population | |
| • 1901 | 27,756 |
| • 1931 | 49,047 |
| • 1961 | 66,251 |
| History | |
| • Created | 1894 |
| • Abolished | 1974 |
| • Succeeded by | Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster |
| Status | Rural district |
| • HQ | Netherhall, Doncaster |
Doncaster was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 to 1974.
The rural district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Doncaster Rural Sanitary District. It consisted of an area surrounding, but not including, the town of Doncaster. Doncaster itself formed a separate municipal borough (from 1927 a county borough). The district underwent a number of boundary changes over its existence due to the expansion of Doncaster and the growth of a number of other towns.
Doncaster Rural District Council were granted armorial bearings on 30 October 1947.
Over its existence the rural district consisted of the following civil parishes:
constituted a separate parish in 1956.
On 1 April 1974 the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect, reorganising administrative areas throughout England and Wales. The rural district was abolished, and its area merged with the County Borough of Doncaster and a number of other districts to from the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, part of the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire.
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