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Doncaster was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

The rural district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Doncaster Rural Sanitary District. It consisted of an area surrounding, but not including, the town of Doncaster. Doncaster itself formed a separate municipal borough (from 1927 a county borough). The district underwent a number of boundary changes over its existence due to the expansion of Doncaster and the growth of a number of other towns.

Doncaster Rural District Council were granted armorial bearings on 30 October 1947.

Civil parishes

Over its existence the rural district consisted of the following civil parishes:

Abolition

On 1 April 1974 the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect, reorganising administrative areas throughout England and Wales. The rural district was abolished, and its area merged with the County Borough of Doncaster and a number of other districts to form the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, part of the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire.

References

1. ^ "Table 10. Rural districts in the administrative East, North, and West Ridings. Area; houses 1901, and population 1891 and 1901". Census 1901. Online Historical Population Reports. p. 59. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
2. ^ "3. Population, acreage, private families and dwellings (A.C., C.B.s, M.B.s, U.D.s, R. D.s, wards of C.B.s, M.B.s and U.D.s, and civil parishes)". Census of England and Wales: County of Yorkshire: West Riding and York CB (Part I), 1931. Online Historical Population Reports. p. 16. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
3. ^ "Table 3: Acreage, Population, Private Households and Dwellings for LAA, Wards, CP in RD, Con, NT". 1961 Census of England and Wales, County Report. Vision of Britain. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
4. ^ Youngs, Frederic A. Jr. (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.2: Northern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. 790. ISBN 0-86193-127-0.
5. Local government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. p. 20. ISBN 0-11-750847-0.

v t e Administrative county of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1888–1974)
West Riding County Council
County boroughs	Barnsley Bradford Dewsbury Doncaster Halifax Huddersfield Leeds Rotherham Sheffield Wakefield York
Municipal boroughs	Batley Brighouse Castleford Goole Harrogate Keighley Morley Ossett Pontefract Pudsey Ripon Spenborough Todmorden
Urban districts	Adwick le Street Aireborough Baildon Barnoldswick Bentley with Arksey Bingley Colne Valley Conisbrough Cudworth Darfield Darton Dearne Denby Dale Denholme Dodworth Earby Elland Featherstone Garforth Hebden Royd Heckmondwike Hemsworth Holmfirth Horbury Horsforth Hoyland Nether Ilkley Kirkburton Knaresborough Knottingley Maltby Meltham Mexborough Mirfield Normanton Otley Penistone Queensbury and Shelf Rawmarsh Ripponden Rothwell Royston Saddleworth Shipley Silsden Skipton Sowerby Bridge Stanley Stocksbridge Swinton Tickhill Wath upon Dearne Wombwell Worsbrough Abolished before 1974: Altofts Ardsley Ardsley East and West Balby with Hexthorpe Barkisland Bingley Outer Birkenshaw Birstall Bolton upon Dearne Burley in Wharfedale Calverley Clayton Clayton West Cleckheaton Denby and Cumberworth Drighlington Eccleshill Emley Farnley Tyas Farsley Flockton Fulstone Gildersome Golcar Gomersal Greasborough Greetland Guiseley Gunthwaite and Ingbirthworth Handsworth Haworth Hebden Bridge Hepworth Hipperholme Holme Honley Hoyland Swaine Hunsworth Idle Kirkheaton Lepton Linthwaite Liversedge Luddenden Foot Marsden Methley Midgley Monk Bretton Mytholmroyd Netherthong New Mill North Bierley Northowram Oakworth Oxenhope Queensbury Quickmere Mid. Div. Ravensthorpe Rawdon Rishworth Sandal Magna Scammonden Scholes Shelf Shelley Shepley Skelmanthorpe Slaithwaite Soothill Nether Soothill Upper South Crosland Southowram Sowerby Soyland Springhead Stainland Thornhill Thornton Thurlstone Thurnscoe Thurstonland and Farnley Tyas Tong Upper Mill Warley Wheatley Whitley Upper Whitwood Wilsden Yeadon
Rural districts	Bowland Doncaster Goole Hemsworth Hepton Kiveton Park Nidderdale Osgoldcross Penistone Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rotherham Sedbergh Selby Settle Skipton Tadcaster Thorne Wakefield Wetherby Wharfedale Wortley Abolished before 1974: Barnsley Bishopthorpe Great Ouseburn Halifax Hunslet Keighley Knaresborough Leeds Pateley Bridge Pontefract Ripon Saddleworth Todmorden

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• Politics of Doncaster
• History of South Yorkshire
• Rural districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire