Place:Barton Regis Rural, Gloucestershire, England

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NameBarton Regis Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates51.472°N 2.558°W
Located inGloucestershire, England     (1894 - 1904)
See alsoBristol, Gloucestershire, Englandcity into which part of the rural district was transferred in 1904
Chipping Sodbury Rural, Gloucestershire, Englandcity into which part of the rural district was transferred in 1904
Thornbury Rural, Gloucestershire, Englandcity into which part of the rural district was transferred in 1904
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Barton Regis Rural District was, from 1894 to 1904, a rural district in the English administrative county of Gloucestershire, adjacent to the City of Bristol.

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Formation

The rural district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Barton Regis Rural Sanitary District, which had taken its name from the ancient hundred of Barton Regis, albeit with quite different boundaries. A directly-elected rural district council replaced the rural sanitary authority which consisted of the poor law guardians for the area. The rural district council (RDC) was based in the offices of the poor law guardians in the Eastville area of Bristol. At its initiation the rural district had a population of close to 14,000.

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Abolition

Not quite ten years later, in November 1903, Bristol Corporation promoted a private act of parliament to extend the city area to include the parishes of Shirehampton and Westbury-on-Trym, and part of the parish of Henbury, as well as the neighbouring Horfield Urban District. As a consequence it was proposed to dissolve the Barton Regis Rural District and distribute its remaining area between the Chipping Sodbury and Thornbury rural districts.

As a consequence, in 1904, Shirehampton and Westbury-on-Trym were added to the city, Filton, Stoke Gifford and Winterbourne parishes were transferred to Chipping Sodbury RD, while the parish of Henbury was transferred to Thornbury RD.

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List of Parishes

ParishDescriptionDurationNotes
Filton ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1904 to Chipping Sodbury Rural District in 1904
Henbury ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1904 to Thornbury Rural District in 1904
Shirehampton tything, chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1904 to the City of Bristol in 1904
Stoke Gifford ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1904 to Chipping Sodbury Rural District in 1904
Westbury on Trym ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1904 to the City of Bristol in 1904
Winterbourne ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1904 to Chipping Sodbury Rural District in 1904
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