Atherstone Rural District
- Atherstone Rural District
infobox historic subdivision
Name= Atherstone
HQ= Atherstone
Status= Rural district
Start= 1894
End= 1974
Replace= North Warwickshire
PopulationFirst= 16,356
PopulationLast= 38,596
PopulationFirstYear= 1901
PopulationLastYear= 1971
AreaFirst= convert|21330|acre|km2|1
AreaLast= convert|21945|acre|km2|1
AreaFirstYear= 1901
AreaLastYear= 1961
Atherstone was a rural district in the administrative county of Warwickshire, England, from 1894 to 1974. It was named after its main town and administrative headquarters of Atherstone.
Over the years the district gained territory on the abolition of neighbouring rural districts. In 1932 it gained part of Nuneaton Rural District and in 1965 it gained most of Tamworth Rural District.
As with all rural districts, Atherstone RD was abolished in 1974 (by the Local Government Act 1972) and was merged with part of the Meriden Rural District to form the new non-metropolitan district of North Warwickshire.
Civil parishes
Over the eighty years of its existence, the rural district contained the following civil parishes:
*Ansley
*Atherstone
*Austrey (from 1965)†
*Baddesley Ensor
*Baxterley
*Bentley
*Caldecote (from 1932)‡
*Dordon (created 1948 from part of Polesworth CP)
*Grendon
*Hartshill
*Kingsbury (from 1965)†
*Mancetter
*Merevale
*Newton Regis (from 1965)†
*Oldbury
*Polesworth
*Seckington (from 1965)†
*Shuttington (from 1965)†
† previously in Tamworth Rural District
‡ previously in Nuneaton Rural District
External links
* [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10002450 Visionofbritain] - Used as reference.
* [http://www.atherstone.org.uk Atherstone Organised]
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