Leigh Rural District was, from 1894 to 1933, 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Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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 ...
of the administrative county of
Lancashire, in northwest England.
It spanned a
rural area outlying from the town
Leigh
Leigh may refer to:
Places In England
Pronounced :
* Leigh, Greater Manchester, Borough of Wigan
** Leigh (UK Parliament constituency)
* Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
Pronounced :
* Leigh, Dorset
* Leigh, Gloucestershire
* Leigh, Kent
* Leigh, Staf ...
.
It was created based on the
rural sanitary district and consisted of the
civil parishes of
Astley,
Culcheth,
Kenyon and
Lowton. The district was abolished in 1933 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 parishes of Kenyon, Lowton and part of Culcheth went to the
Golborne urban district, Astley was added to
Tyldesley Urban District
Tyldesley cum Shakerley Urban District and its successor Tyldesley Urban District was, from 1894 to 1974, a local government district in Lancashire, England.
History
The township of Tyldesley cum Shakerley historically lay in the large ecclesiast ...
, and the remainder of Culcheth parish became part of the parish of
Croft
Croft may refer to:
Occupations
* Croft (land), a small area of land, often with a crofter's dwelling
* Crofting, small-scale food production
* Bleachfield, an open space used for the bleaching of fabric, also called a croft
Locations In the Uni ...
in
Warrington Rural District.
Since 1974 the parishes of Croft and
Culcheth and Glazebury form part of the borough of
Warrington and the rest are part of the
Metropolitan Borough of Wigan.
References
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History of Lancashire
Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
Rural districts of England