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Doncaster Rural District was located in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 to 1974.
The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Doncaster Rural Sanitary District. It consisted of an area surrounding, but not including, the town of Doncaster. Doncaster itself formed a separate municipal borough (from 1927 a county borough). The district underwent a number of boundary changes over its existence due to the expansion of Doncaster and the growth of a number of other towns. These boundary changes are discussed under the individual parishes.
Abolition
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On 1 April 1974 the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect, reorganising administrative areas throughout England and Wales. The rural district was abolished, and its area merged with the County Borough of Doncaster and a number of other districts to form the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, part of the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire.
Civil parishes
Over its existence the rural district consisted of the following civil parishes:
| Placename | Type | Notes
| | Adwick le Street | parish (ancient), civil parish | constituted an urban district in 1915
| | Adwick upon Dearne | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Armthorpe | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Askern | township, civil parish |
| | Auckley | township, civil parish | partly in Nottinghamshire until 1895
| | Austerfield | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Balby with Hexthorpe | township, civil parish | constituted an urban district in 1895
| | Barnbrough | parish (ancient), civil parish | renamed Barnburgh in 1951
| | Barnby upon Don | parish (ancient), civil parish | merged with Kirk Sandall parish 1921
| | Barnby Dun with Kirk Sandall | civil parish | formed 1921 from union of parishes of Barnby upon Don and Kirk Sandall. The area of Edenthorpe was constituted a separate parish in 1956.
| | Bawtry | chapelry, civil parish |
| | Bentley with Arksey | parish (ancient), civil parish | constituted an urban district in 1911
| | Bilham | township, civil parish | absorbed by Hooton Pagnell parish in 1920
| | Blaxton | township, civil parish |
| | Bolton upon Dearne | parish (ancient), civil parish | constituted an urban district in 1899
| | Braithwell | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Brodsworth | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Burghwallis | township, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Cadeby | township, civil parish |
| | Campsall | parish (ancient), civil parish | absorbed into Norton (near Doncaster) in 1938)
| | Cantley | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Carr House and Elm Field | extra parochial area, civil parish | absorbed by Doncaster Municipal Borough in 1914
| | Clayton with Frickley | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Conisbrough | parish (ancient), civil parish | majority of parish constituted an urban district in 1921, remainder became new parish of Conisbrough Parks
| | Conisbrough Parks | | formed 1921 form the part of Conisbrough parish that was not created an urban district
| | Denaby | township, civil parish |
| | Edenthorpe | civil parish | created 1956 from part of Barnby Dun with Kirk Sandall parish
| | Edlington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Fenwick | township, civil parish |
| | Hampole | township, civil parish |
| | Hickleton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | High Melton (near Doncaster) | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Hooton Pagnell | parish (ancient), civil parish | absorbed Stotfold and Bilham parishes in 1920
| | Kirk Bramwith | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Kirk Sandall | parish (ancient), civil parish | merged with Barnby upon Don parish to form Barnby Dun with Kirk Sandall in 1921
| | Loversall | township, civil parish |
| | Marr | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Moss | township, civil parish |
| | Norton (near Doncaster) | township, civil parish | absorbed Campsall and Sutton (near Doncaster) parishes in 1938
| | Owston | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Skellow | township, civil parish | formed part of newly constituted Adwick le Street Urban District in 1915
| | Rossington | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Sprotbrough and Cusworth | township, parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Stainton | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Stotfold | extra parochial area, civil parish | absorbed by Hooton Pagnell parish in 1920
| | Sutton (near Doncaster) | township, civil parish | absorbed by Norton (near Doncaster) parish in 1938
| | Thorpe in Balne | township, civil parish |
| | Thurnscoe | parish (ancient), civil parish | constituted an urban district in 1908
| | Tickhill Outer | parish (ancient), civil parish | absorbed by Tickhill Urban District in 1895)
| | Wadworth | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Warmsworth | parish (ancient), civil parish |
| | Wheatley | hamlet, civil parish | constituted an urban district in 1900
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Research Tips
- A Vision of Britain through Time on Doncaster 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 Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
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