Clun and Bishop's Castle Rural District

Coordinates: 52°28′12″N 2°56′35″W / 52.470°N 2.943°W / 52.470; -2.943

Clun and Bishop's Castle
Area
  1901 82,206 acres (332.7 km2)
  1961 132,512 acres (536.3 km2)
Population
  1901 6,824
  1971 8,883
History
  Created 1894
  Abolished 1974
  Succeeded by South Shropshire
Status Rural district
  HQ Clun

Clun and Bishop's Castle was a rural district in Shropshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as the Clun Rural District, based on the Clun rural sanitary district. It was enlarged in 1934 under a County Review Order by taking in the disbanded Chirbury Rural District and Teme Rural District.[1]

1967 saw the district renamed 'Clun and Bishop's Castle', when it absorbed the municipal borough of Bishop's Castle. Bishop's Castle became a rural borough within the rural district.[2]

The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and was merged to form part of the South Shropshire district.[3]

Civil parishes

The rural district contained the following civil parishes:[4]

†Previously in Teme Rural District

‡Previously in Chirbury Rural District

References

  1. Clun Rural District at Vision of Britain. Accessed 31 January 2006.
  2. Clun and Bishop's Castle Rural District at Vision of Britain. Accessed 31 January 2006.
  3. HMSO. S.I. 1972/2039
  4. Frederic A Youngs Jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Volume II: Northern England, London, 1991
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