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.
Civil parishes Over its existence the rural district consisted of the following civil parishes:
ParishNotesAdwick le StreetConstituted an urban district in 1915Adwick upon DearneArmthorpeAskernAuckleyPartly in Nottinghamshire until 1895AusterfieldBalby with HexthorpeConstituted an urban district in 1895Barnbrough Renamed Barnburgh in 1951Barnby upon DonMerged with Kirk Sandall parish 1921Barnby Dun with Kirk SandallFormed 1921 from union of parishes of Barnby upon Don and Kirk Sandall.The area of Edenthorpe was constituted a separate parish in 1956.BawtryBentley with ArkseyConstituted an urban district in 1911BilhamAbsorbed by Hootton Pagnell parish in 1920BlaxtonBolton upon DearneConstituted an urban district in 1899BraithwellBrodsworthBurghwallisCadebyCantleyCarr House and Elm FieldAbsorbed by Doncaster MB in 1914Clayton with FrickleyConisbroughMajority of parish constituted an urban district in 1921, remainder became new parish of Conisbrough ParksConisbrough ParksFormed 1921 form the part of Conisbrough parish not created an urban districtDenabyEdenthorpeCreated 1956 from part of Barnby Dun with Kirk Sandall parishEdlingtonFenwickHampoleHickletonHooton PagnellAbsorbed Stotfold and Bilham parishes in 1920Kirk BramwithKirk SandallMerged with Barnby upon Don parish to form Barnby Dun with Kirk Sandall in 1921LoversallMarrMeltonMossNortonAbsorbed Sutton parish in 1938OwstonSkellowFormed part of newly constituted Adwick le Street Urban District in 1915RossingtonSprotbroughStaintonStotfoldAbsorbed by Hootton Pagnell parish in 1920SuttonAbsorbed by Norton parish in 1938Thorpe in BalneThurnscoeConstituted an urban district in 1908Tickhill OuterAbsorbed by Tickhill Urban District in 1895WadworthWarmsworthWheatleyConstituted an urban district in 1900
Abolition 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 form the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, part of the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire.
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