Grimsby Rural District was a rural district in Lincolnshire, England, part of the administrative county of

Lindsey Lindsey may refer to : Places Canada * Lindsey Lake, Nova Scotia England * Parts of Lindsey, one of the historic Parts of Lincolnshire and an administrative county from 1889 to 1974 ** East Lindsey, an administrative district in Lincolnshire, ...

, from 1894 to 1974. The district covered the town of Immingham and the parishes of Ashby-cum-Fenby,

Aylesby Aylesby is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It is situated near the A18 road, approximately west from Cleethorpes and north of Laceby. The population at the 2001 census was 135, increasing to 155 at the 2011 ...

, Barnoldby-le-Beck,

Beelsby Beelsby is a village in North East Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated approximately south-west from Grimsby. Beelsby population at the 2001 Census was 114, increasing to 119 at the 2011 census. The village is the source for the Ri ...

Bradley Bradley is an English surname derived from a place name meaning "broad wood" or "broad meadow" in Old English. Like many English surnames Bradley can also be used as a given name and as such has become popular. It is also an Anglicisation of t ...

, Brigsley, East Ravendale,

Habrough __NOTOC__ Habrough ( ) is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England, north-west of Grimsby and inland from the River Humber at the southern edge of the A180 road, just west of Immingham and south of South Killin ...

, Hatcliffe, Hawerby-cum-Beesby,

Healing With physical trauma or disease suffered by an organism, healing involves the repairing of damaged tissue(s), organs and the biological system as a whole and resumption of (normal) functioning. Medicine includes the process by which the cells ...

, Humberston,

Irby Irby may refer to: * Irby (surname), a list of people * Irby, Merseyside, England, a village * Irby, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community * Irby, Washington, United States, an unincorporated community * Irby in the Marsh, Lincol ...

Laceby Laceby is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A46 road, just outside the western boundary of Grimsby. Laceby's population at the 2001 Census was 2,886, increasing to 3,259 at the 2011 Census. Th ...

New Waltham New Waltham is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It is situated just south of Grimsby and Cleethorpes, close to the A16 ( Louth Road), and between the villages of Waltham and Humberston. The village originates ...

(from 1961),

Stallingborough Stallingborough is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,234. History Prehistory-1840 The area around Stallingborough may have been inhabited in prehistoric ...

, Waltham,

West Ravendale West Ravendale is a hamlet in the civil parish of East Ravendale , in North East Lincolnshire, England, and approximately south-west from the town of Grimsby. The ruins of West Ravendale Priory are located here. It was a small Alien house of ...

, and Wold Newton. Four additional parishes were part of the district at some point, but were abolished prior to 1974.

Little Coates Little Coates is an area of western Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. It is in the Yarborough ward of the North East Lincolnshire Unitary Council. History Little Coates was already inhabited at the time of the Norman conquest. By 186 ...

was split between Grimsby borough and

Great Coates Great Coates is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. It is to the north-west and adjoins the Grimsby urban area, and is served by Great Coates railway station. The northern part of the parish extends to the Humber Es ...

parish in 1928. Scartho went to Grimsby borough and Waltham parish in 1928, and

went to Grimsby borough and Healing parish in 1968. Finally,

Weelsby Weelsby is located in the Weelsby Road area of eastern Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. Previously separate from Grimsby, Weelsby Woods and Weelsby Hall lie within the area, as does the Grimsby Tennis Centre, Peaks Lane fire station, S ...

was given to Humberston and New Waltham parishes in 1968. The rural district was separate from the Grimsby county borough and the

Municipal Borough of Cleethorpes Cleethorpes was an Urban District and Municipal Borough in Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England from 1894 to 1974.F A Youngs Jr., ''Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol II: Northern England'', London, 1991 It was created ...

, which it surrounded on three sides. When the county of

Humberside Humberside () was a Non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in Northern England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996. It was composed of land from either side of the Humber Estuary, create ...

was formed in 1974, the Grimsby rural district and the Cleethorpes municipal borough were combined to form the new borough of Cleethorpes. In 1996 the area became part of the new

unitary authority A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governmen ...

of North East Lincolnshire.

References

Grimsby RD on visionofbritain.org.uk
{{coord, 53.52, -0.15, dim:20000_region:GB, display=title Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 Politics of Grimsby Rural districts of Lindsey