Place:Gloucester Rural, Gloucestershire, England

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Gloucester Rural District was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Gloucestershire, England. The district did not include the City of Gloucester, which was a separate county borough. The rural district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to Gloucester Rural Sanitary District.

In 1935 Gloucester RD was more than doubled in size. Under the Local Government Act 1929 county councils were given the duty of reviewing all urban and rural districts within their area. In Gloucestershire there were a number of very small districts, and under the County of Gloucester Review Order 1935, Gloucester Rural District was enlarged by the transfer of the whole or parts of three abolished districts.

Between 1951 and 1967 a number of areas suburban to the City of Gloucester were removed from the rural district when the city boundaries were extended.

The rural district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. Its area was redistributed between three non-metropolitan districts: Tewkesbury (17 parishes), Stroud (16 parishes) and Forest of Dean (2 parishes--Newnham and Westbury on Severn).

List of Parishes