Hunslet Rural District

Coordinates: 53°46′41″N 1°31′52″W / 53.778°N 1.531°W / 53.778; -1.531

Hunslet
Area
  1901 6,400 acres (26 km2)
  1931 1,178 acres (4.77 km2)
Population
  1901 6,730[1]
  1931 4,290
History
  Origin Hunslet Rural Sanitary District
  Created 1894
  Abolished 1937
  Succeeded by Rothwell Urban District
Status Rural district
  HQ Hunslet

Hunslet was a rural district of the administrative county of Yorkshire, West Riding from 1894 to 1937.

The rural district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Hunslet Rural Sanitary District. It lay to the south of the county borough of Leeds, and initially consisted of four civil parishes:

The council offices were in Hunslet within the county borough.[2] In 1920 the area of the rural district was reduced when Middleton was included in the enlarged boundaries of Leeds. Five years later the parish of Thorpe Stapleton, with a population at the 1921 census of just 23, was absorbed by Templenewsham.[3] In 1928 a further extension of the City of Leeds took in Templenewsham, leaving the rural district with the single parish of Oulton with Woodlesford.

The district was abolished in 1937 by a county review order, with its area included in an enlarged Rothwell Urban District.

References

  1. Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Hunslet Rural District. Retrieved on 2008-03-28.
  2. Hunslet Rural District Council offices at Leek Street, Hunslet in London Gazette Issue 33940, published 16 May 1933
  3. Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Hunslet Rural District 1921 census. Retrieved on 2008-03-28.
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