Weardale was a
rural district in
County Durham,
England
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from 1894 to 1974. It was formed under the
Local Government Act 1894
The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The Act followed the reforms carried out at county level un ...
as a successor to the Weardale
rural sanitary district
Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1872 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures:
*Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies
*Rural sanitary dis ...
.
It originally consisted of the parishes of
Edmondbyers,
Hunstanworth
Hunstanworth is a small village in County Durham, England. It is situated approximately 10 miles to the west of Consett, south-west of the village of Blanchland. The population of the village as taken at the 2011 Census was 116.
Listed in the Bol ...
,
Wolsingham
Wolsingham is a market town in Weardale, County Durham, England. It is situated by the River Wear, between Crook and Stanhope.
History
Wolsingham sits at the confluence of the River Wear and Waskerley Beck. It is a small settlement and one ...
. It was expanded in 1937 by taking in parts of parishes in the disbanded
Auckland Rural District
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, and also adding
Stanhope which had previously been an independent
urban district.
The district was abolished in 1974 under the
Local Government Act 1972, and its area went to form part of the new
Wear Valley
Wear Valley was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district in County Durham, England. Its council and district capital was Crook.
The district covered much of the Weardale area. In the west it was parished and rural, whereas in the eas ...
district.
History of County Durham
Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972
Rural districts of England
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