Hunslet Rural District

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

Hunslet
Area
 • 19016,400 acres (26 km2)
 • 19311,178 acres (4.77 km2)
Population
 • 19016,730[1]
 • 19314,290
History
 • OriginHunslet Rural Sanitary District
 • Created1894
 • Abolished1937
 • Succeeded byRothwell Urban District
StatusRural district
 • HQHunslet

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.

  1. ^ Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Hunslet Rural District. Retrieved 28 March 2008. Archived 19 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  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 28 March 2008. Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine