Place:Great Ouseburn Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameGreat Ouseburn Rural
TypeRural district
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     (1894 - 1938)
Also located inYorkshire, England    
See alsoNidderdale Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district which replaced most of Great Ouseburn Rural in 1938
Tadcaster Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district to which some parishes were transferred in 1938
York, Yorkshire, Englandcity which absorbed some of Great Ouseburn Rural in 1938
Harrogate District, North Yorkshire, Englandadministrative district covering the area since 1974

Great Ouseburn Rural District existed from 1894 until 1938. It covered the area around the town of Great Ouseburn and in 1938 was replaced, for the most part, by Nidderdale Rural District which also took in a number of other rural districts such as Knaresborough. Nidderdale Rural was absorbed into the Harrogate District of North Yorkshire in 1974.

NumberParishNumberParish
1Acomb17Lower Dunsforth
2Aldborough18Marton cum Grafton
3Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton19Minskip
4Arkendale20Moor Monkton
5Boroughbridge21Nether Poppleton
6Cattal22Nun Monkton
7Coneythorpe and Clareton23Roecliffe
8Copgrove24Rufforth
9Great Ouseburn25Staveley
10Great Ribston with Walshford26Thornville
11Green Hammerton27Thorpe Underwoods
12Hessay28Upper Dunsforth cum Branton Green
13Hunsingore29Upper Poppleton
14Kirk Hammerton30Westwick
15Knapton (in Acomb)31Whixley
16Little Ouseburn and Kirby Hall32Widdington


Research Tips

  • A Vision of Britain through Time on Great Ouseburn 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 maps of the West Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. Those listed here provide data for the part of the West Riding that transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974 plus the northern parts of Leeds and Bradford. 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 Northern part of the West Riding 1900 The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (rural districts of Sedbergh, Settle, Skipton, Pateley Bridge, Ripon, Knaresborough, Great Ouseburn, Clitheroe, Wharfedale, Wetherby, York, Bishopthorpe, Keighley, the northern part of Bradford, the northern part of Leeds, the northern part of Hunslet Urban District, the northern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the northern part of Selby Rural District). [Note: this map appears to be no longer available on the Vision of Britain website. This is unfortunate because the equivalent map from 1931-44 was redrawn after the 1938 reorganization of the rural districts in the northern part of the West Riding.]
  • Ordnance Survey Northern part of the West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the northern part of the West Riding (mostly Settle, Skipton, Ripon and Pateley Bridge, and Nidderdale, with sections of Wharfedale and Wetherby) after the revisions of 1938.
  • Ordnance Survey Southern part of the West Riding 1944 shows the southern part of the West Riding (including the southern part of Wetherby Rural District).