Chertsey Rural District was a

rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...

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, England from 1894 to 1933. The rural district was the successor to the Chertsey Rural Sanitary District and originally comprised seven civil parishes. It did not include the town of Chertsey, which was an

urban district Urban district may refer to: * District * Urban area * Quarter (urban subdivision) * Neighbourhood Specific subdivisions in some countries: * Urban districts of Denmark * Urban districts of Germany * Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (hist ...

in its own right. The district was reduced in size in 1907 and 1909 with the loss of two parishes to urban districts and finally abolished in 1933 when its constituent parishes were transferred to other districts under a

county review order The Local Government Act 1929 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made changes to the Poor Law and local government in England and Wales. The Act abolished the system of poor law unions in England and Wales and their boar ...

. The rural district as originally constituted, was in three parts, separated by other districts. The four parishes of Bisley, Chobham, Horsall and Windlesham formed a single block while the parish of Thorpe was a detached portion to the north-east and the parishes of Byfleet and Pyrford formed another detached block to the south-east.

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* {{coord missing, United Kingdom 1933 disestablishments in England Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 Rural districts of England