Place:Kiveton Park Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Kiveton Park was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974.

It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Worksop rural sanitary district which was in the West Riding--the rest going to form Worksop Rural District in Nottinghamshire and Clowne Rural District in Derbyshire. The rural district took its name from the village of Kiveton Park.

The district survived until 1974 when it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire.

The rural district, which was far more agriculturally based than the mining area to the north, originally comprised 11 civil parishes:

	1	Anston, North and South
	2	Dinnington
	3	Firbeck
	4	Gildingwells
	5	Harthill with Woodall
	6	Letwell
	7	St. John's with Throapham
	8	Thorpe Salvin
	9	Todwick
	10	Wales
	11	Woodsetts

In 1954 the number of parishes was reduced to 10 when Dinnington and St. John's with Throapham were merged to form Dinnington St. John's.

Research Tips

• A Vision of Britain through Time on Kiveton Park 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.