Hunslet Rural District

infobox historic subdivision|
Name= Hunslet
HQ= Hunslet
Status= Rural district
Origin= Hunslet Rural Sanitary District
Start= 1894
End= 1937
Replace= Rothwell Urban District
PopulationFirst= 6,730 [cite vob|name=Hunslet Rural District | url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10136039 | accessdate=2008-03-28]
PopulationFirstYear= 1901
PopulationLast= 4,290
PopulationLastYear= 1931
AreaFirst= convert|6400|acre|km2
AreaFirstYear= 1901
AreaLast= convert|1178|acre|km2
AreaLastYear= 1931

Hunslet was a rural district of the administrative county of Yorkshire, West Riding from 1894 to 1937.

The rural district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Hunslet Rural Sanitary District. It lay to the south of the county borough of Leeds, and initially consisted of four civil parishes:
*Middleton
*Oulton with Woodlesford
*Templenewsham
*Thorpe Stapleton

The council offices were in Hunslet within the county borough. [Hunslet Rural District Council offices at Leek Street, Hunslet in "London Gazette" Issue 33940, published 16 May 1933] In 1920 the area of the rural district was reduced when Middleton was included in the enlarged boundaries of Leeds. Five years later the parish of Thorpe Stapleton, with a population at the 1921 census of just 23, was absorbed by Templenewsham. [cite vob|name=Hunslet Rural District 1921 census | url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/table_page.jsp?tab_id=EW1921COU_M3&u_id=10136039&show=DB | accessdate=2008-03-28] In 1928 a further extension of the City of Leeds took in Templenewsham, leaving the rural district with the single parish of Oulton with Woodlesford.

The district was abolished in 1937 by a county review order, with its area included in an enlarged Rothwell Urban District.

References

*F A Youngs Jr., "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England", London 1991