Doncaster Rural District

Doncaster
Area
 • 190190,373 acres (366 km2)[1]
 • 193177,865 acres (315 km2)[2]
 • 196175,094 acres (304 km2)[3]
Population
 • 190127,756[1]
 • 193149,047[2]
 • 196166,251[3]
History
 • Created1894
 • Abolished1974
 • Succeeded byMetropolitan Borough of Doncaster
StatusRural district
 • HQNetherhall, Doncaster

Doncaster was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

The rural district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Doncaster Rural Sanitary District. It consisted of an area surrounding, but not including, the town of Doncaster. Doncaster itself formed a separate municipal borough (from 1927 a county borough).[4] The district underwent a number of boundary changes over its existence due to the expansion of Doncaster and the growth of a number of other towns.[4]

Doncaster Rural District Council were granted armorial bearings on 30 October 1947.

  1. ^ a b "Table 10. Rural districts in the administrative East, North, and West Ridings. Area; houses 1901, and population 1891 and 1901". Census 1901. Online Historical Population Reports. p. 59. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  2. ^ a b "3. Population, acreage, private families and dwellings (A.C., C.B.s, M.B.s, U.D.s, R. D.s, wards of C.B.s, M.B.s and U.D.s, and civil parishes)". Census of England and Wales: County of Yorkshire: West Riding and York CB (Part I), 1931. Online Historical Population Reports. p. 16. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  3. ^ a b "Table 3: Acreage, Population, Private Households and Dwellings for LAA, Wards, CP in RD, Con, NT". 1961 Census of England and Wales, County Report. Vision of Britain. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  4. ^ a b Youngs, Frederic A. Jr. (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.2: Northern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. 790. ISBN 0-86193-127-0.