Place:Nidderdale Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameNidderdale Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates54.023°N 1.606°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     (1894 - 1974)
Also located inYorkshire, England    
See alsoKnaresborough Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district merged to form Nidderdale Rural District in 1937
Great Ouseburn Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district merged to form Nidderdale Rural District in 1937
Harrogate District, North Yorkshire, Englandadministrative district of which it has been a part since 1974
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Nidderdale was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1938 to 1974. It was created from the combination of most of the disbanded rural districts of Great Ouseburn and Knaresborough. [1]

The district covered villages in the lower valley of the River Nidd between Hampsthwaite and York. Despite its name it included only a small part of Nidderdale, most of which was in Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rural District. It bordered Harrogate and Knaresborough urban districts on their west, north and east.

Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray, the premier baron, served on the district council from 1954 until 1959.

In 1974 it was merged with other districts under the Local Government Act 1972 to form part of the district of Harrogate in the new county of North Yorkshire.

Image:Nidderdale District 1935.png


Knaresborough Rural DistrictKnaresborough Rural District (cont'd)
Map NumberParishMap NumberParish
1 Bilton12 Killinghall
2 Brearton13 Knaresborough Outer
3 Burton Leonard14 Nidd
4 Farnham15 Pannal
5 Felliscliffe16 Plumpton
6 Ferrensby17 Ripley
7 Flaxby18 Scotton
8 Follifoot19 Scriven
9 Goldsborough20 South Stainley with Cayton
10 Hampsthwaite21 Starbeck
11 Haverah Park22 Walkingham Hill with Ockany


Great Ouseburn Rural DistrictGreat Ouseburn Rural District (cont'd)
Map NumberParishMap NumberParish
1 Acomb17 Lower Dunsforth
2 Aldborough18 Marton cum Grafton
3 Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton19 Minskip
4 Arkendale20 Moor Monkton
5 Boroughbridge21 Nether Poppleton
6 Cattal22 Nun Monkton
7 Coneythorpe and Clareton23 Roecliffe
8 Copgrove24 Rufforth
9 Great Ouseburn25 Staveley
10 Great Ribston with Walshford26 Thornville
11 Green Hammerton27 Thorpe Underwoods
12 Hessay28 Upper Dunsforth cum Branton Green
13 Hunsingore29 Upper Poppleton
14 Kirk Hammerton30 Westwick
15 Knapton (in Acomb)31 Whixley
16 Little Ouseburn and Kirby Hall32 Widdington

Research Tips

  • A Vision of Britain through Time on Nidderdale 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).
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