Chorley Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1974.
The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as the successor to the Chorley Rural Sanitary District. It comprised an area surrounding but did not include the Municipal Borough of Chorley.
Under the Local Government Act 1972, the rural district was abolished in 1974 and its former area became part of the non-metropolitan Borough of Chorley.
Parishes The district consisted of twenty-two civil parishes:
Anderton Anglezarke Bretherton Brindle Charnock Richard Clayton-le-Woods Coppull Croston (from 1934) Cuerdon Duxbury (until 1934) Eccleston Euxton Heapey Heath Charnock Heskin Hoghton Mawdesley Rivington Ulnes Walton Welch Whittle (until 1934) Wheelton Whittle-le-Woods
Notes
External links Boundary Map of Chorley RD (A Vision of Britain through Time) Chorley Rural District (The National Archives)