- Maelor Rural District
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Coordinates: 53°03′50″N 2°52′19″W / 53.064°N 2.872°W
Overton / Maelor Geography Status rural district 1911 area 29,750 acres (120.4 km2) 1961 area 29,749 acres (120.39 km2) HQ Overton History Origin rural sanitary district Created 1894 Abolished 1974 Succeeded by Wrexham Maelor Demography 1901 population 5,057 1971 population 4,698 Politics Governance Overton Rural District Council (1894–1953)
Maelor Rural District Council (1953–1974)Subdivisions Type Civil parishes Maelor was a rural district in the administrative county of Flintshire, Wales, from 1894 to 1974. The area approximated to the hundred of Maelor or Maelor Saesneg, and was notable for forming a detached part of the county, surrounded by Cheshire, Denbighshire and Shropshire.
The district was formed as Overton Rural District by the Local Government Act 1894 from the Flintshire parishes of Ellesmere, Whitchurch and Wrexham Rural Sanitary Districts. It was renamed as Maelor Rural District in 1953. It consisted of eleven civil parishes:
- Bangor Is Coed
- Bettisfield
- Bronington
- Halghton
- Hanmer
- Iscoyd
- Overton
- Penley
- Tybroughton
- Willington
- Worthenbury
The district was abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, when it was merged into Wrexham Maelor, one of six districts of the new County of Clwyd.
External links
- Vision of Britain - Maelor Rural District. Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
- Vision of Britain - Overton Rural District. Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
Categories:- Former subdivisions of Wales
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