Place:Bowland Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Bowland Rural District was located in the very northwest of the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. It was named after the Forest of Bowland, which it included. Note that the ancient parishes of Gisburn and Mitton had each been broken down into several civil parishes during the 19th century.

It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Clitheroe rural sanitary district which was in Yorkshire (the rest becoming the Clitheroe Rural District in Lancashire).

When the district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, the area was transferred into Lancashire and became part of the Borough of Ribble Valley.

Civil Parishes

The civil parishes included in Bowland Rural District from 1894 until 1974 were as follows (with two noted exceptions that joined in 1938):

Research Tips

• A Vision of Britain through Time on Bowland Rural District. This section provides statistics on population and industry, as well as a listing of the civil parishes and the alterations to the municipal organization.
• A map of the West Riding of Yorkshire circa 1888 (before the existence of rural and urban districts) supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time
• A map of the southern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire circa 1931 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time
• A map of the northern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire circa 1931 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time (Bowland Rural Districts is divided in half horizontally between these two maps.)