Atherstone Rural District

Atherstone
Area
  1901 21,330 acres (86.3 km2)
  1961 21,945 acres (88.8 km2)
Population
  1901 16,356
  1971 38,596
History
  Created 1894
  Abolished 1974
  Succeeded by North Warwickshire
Status Rural district
  HQ Atherstone

Atherstone was a rural district in the administrative county of Warwickshire, England, from 1894 to 1974. It was named after its main town and administrative headquarters of Atherstone.

Over the years the district gained territory on the abolition of neighbouring rural districts. In 1932 it gained part of Nuneaton Rural District and in 1965 it gained most of Tamworth Rural District.

As with all rural districts, Atherstone RD was abolished in 1974 (by the Local Government Act 1972) and was merged with part of the Meriden Rural District to form the new non-metropolitan district of North Warwickshire.

Civil parishes

Over the eighty years of its existence, the rural district contained the following civil parishes:

† previously in Tamworth Rural District

‡ previously in Nuneaton Rural District

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Coordinates: 52°34′N 1°33′W / 52.57°N 1.55°W / 52.57; -1.55

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