Place:Wirral Rural, Cheshire, England

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Wirral Rural District existed in Cheshire, England from 1894 to 1933. It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 from the Wirral Rural Sanitary District.

The parishes of Landican and Prenton became part of the county borough of Birkenhead in 1928.

It was abolished in 1933 under a County Review Order, being split between the Bebington urban district, the county borough of Birkenhead, Ellesmere Port urban district, Hoylake urban district, Neston urban district, Wallasey county borough and the new Wirral Urban District.

Today the area makes up the majority of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside and also the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston in Cheshire.

Civil Parishes

• Arrowe (part to Birkenhead in 1933; part to Wirral 1933)
• Barnston (to Wirral UD 1933)
• Bidston-cum-Ford (part to Birkenhead in 1933; part to Wallasey 1933)
• Brimstage (part to Bebington 1933; part to Wirral UD 1933)
• Burton (to Neston UD 1933)
• Caldy (to Hoylake 1933)
• Childer Thornton (part to Bebington 1933)
• Eastham (part to Bebington 1933)
• Frankby (to Hoylake 1933)
• Gayton (to Wirral UD 1933)
• Grange (to Hoylake 1933)
• Greasby (to Hoylake 1933)
• Great Sutton (to Ellesmere Port 1933)
• Heswall-cum-Oldfield (to Wirral UD 1933)
• Higher Bebington (to Birkenhead 1877)
• Hooton (part to Bebington 1933)
• Irby (to Wirral UD 1933)
• Landican (to Birkenhead in 1928)
• Ledsham (to Chester RD 1933)
• Little Sutton (to Ellesmere Port 1933)
• Moreton (to Wallasey 1928)
• Ness (to Neston UD 1933)
• Netherpool (to Ellesmere Port and Whitby UD 1910)
• Noctorum (to Birkenhead in 1933)
• Overpool (to Ellesmere Port and Whitby UD 1910)
• Pensby (to Wirral UD 1933)
• Poulton-cum-Spital (part to Bebington 1933)
• Prenton (to Birkenhead in 1928)
• Puddington (to Chester RD 1933)
• Raby (part to Bebington 1933)
• Saughall Massie (part to Wallasey 1933; part to Hoylake 1933)
• Storeton (to Bebington 1933)
• Thingwall (to Birkenhead in 1928)
• Thornton Hough (part to Bebington 1933; part to Wirral UD 1933)
• Thurstaston (to Wirral UD 1933)
• Upton-by-Birkenhead (part to Birkenhead in 1933; part to Wallasey 1933)
• Whitby (to Ellesmere Port and Whitby UD 1902)
• Willaston (part to Bebington 1933)
• Woodchurch (to Birkenhead in 1933)

Research Tips

• A Vision of Britain through Time provided the above list of parishes and provided a brief bit of detail on each of them.
• Map of Cheshire district boundaries as of 1931 from A Vision of Britain through Time.