- Sefton Rural District
Sefton was a
rural district inLancashire ,England from 1894 to 1932.It was created by the
Local Government Act 1894 based onWest Derby rural sanitary district . It included the following parishes*
Aintree
*Croxteth Park (toLiverpool in 1928)
*Fazakerley (to Liverpool in 1905)
*Orrell and Ford (split 1905 toOrrell Park which became part ofBootle , and Ford, which remained in Sefton RD)
*Ince Blundell
*Kirkby (transferred toWhiston Rural District in 1922)
*Lunt
*Netherton
*Sefton
*Thornton
*West Derby Rural (to Liverpool in 1928)It was abolished by a County Review Order in 1932, with the parishes being added to the
West Lancashire Rural District (Lunt being abolished and added to Sefton parish at the same time). The remaining parishes, Aintree, Ford (itself absorbed into Litherland in 1954), Ince Blundell, Netherton, Sefton and Thornton, have all formed part of theMetropolitan Borough of Sefton inMerseyside since 1974.References
*http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10221237
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