Warrington Rural District was, from 1894 to 1974, a local government district in the administrative county of Lancashire.
It was formed a rural district under the Local Government Act 1894 from the Warrington rural sanitary district, and was centred on territory north of the town of Warrington (which was broadly shared with, but separate from, the County Borough of Warrington). In 1974, the district was abolished and became part of the new Borough of Warrington which was transferred to Cheshire.
Boundaries It covered the following parishes initially:
Burtonwood Cuerdley Great Sankey Houghton, Middleton and Arbury Little Sankey Penketh Poulton with Fearnhead Rixton with Glazebrook Southworth with Croft Winwick with Hulme Woolston with Martinscroft
The parish of Little Sankey, which had been formed from that part of Warrington parish not in Warrington borough; was added to Warrington in 1896.
Reorganisation The district was reorganised in 1933, by taking in part of the disbanded Leigh Rural District. Several parishes were reorganisedWarrington RD Lancashire through time | Administrative history of Local Government District: hierarchies, boundaries
Burtonwood Croft Cuerdley Great Sankey Penketh Poulton with Fearnhead Rixton with Glazebrook Winwick Woolston
The district was abolished on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It became part of the new borough of Warrington in the non-metropolitan county of Cheshire.
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