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Barnsley was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 to 1938. It encompassed the surrounding area but did not include the town of Barnsley. [edit] Creation
The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Barnsley Rural Sanitary District. A directly elected rural district council (RDC) replaced the previous rural sanitary authority, which had consisted of poor law guardians for the area. The district consisted of a number of rural parishes surrounding Barnsley. Barnsley did not form part of the rural district, as it was a municipal borough (a county borough from 1913).[1] Image:Barnsley3.png
[edit] Civil ParishesThe rural district initially consisted of eight civil parishes which, as will be seen below, quickly dropped to five:
Barnsley Rural District ceased to exist in 1938 when its constituent civil parishes were absorbed by Wakefield Rural District, Barnsley Municipal Borough, Darton Urban District, Hemsworth Rural District, Penistone Rural District, and Royston Urban District. Some of the civil parishes listed above are not shown on the map of the Metropolitan District of Barnsely because they were transferred to other municipalities, such as Wakefield, in the municipal reorganization of 1974. The northern boundary of modern Barnsley is also, for the most part, the boundary between South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. [edit] Research Tips
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