Wrexham was a rural district in the administrative county of Denbighshire from 1894 and 1974.[1][2]
The rural district took over the existing Wrexham Rural Sanitary District.[1] It consisted of the following civil parishes:[1]
The parishes marked † were abolished by a County Review Order in 1935, and their areas redistributed to other parishes in the rural district and to the borough of Wrexham.[1] At the same time the district was enlarged by the addition of two parishes from the abolished Llangollen Rural District: Llangollen Rural and Llantysilio.[1]
The rural district was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972[citation needed] in 1974.[1] Most of the area passed to Wrexham Maelor, with Llangollen Rural and Llantysilio parishes passing to Glyndŵr, both districts in the new county of Clwyd.[1]