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Tewkesbury Rural District was, from 1894 to 1935, a rural district in the south-western part of the Midlands in England. It had the unusual feature of including territory from the two neighbouring administrative counties of Gloucestershire and Worcestershire until an act of Parliament of 1929 ruled that rural districts must only cover parishes in one county. Tewkesbury Rural District parishes in Worcestershire were transferred back to their original county in 1933.
The rural district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Tewkesbury Rural Sanitary District. A directly-elected rural district council (or RDC) replaced the rural sanitary authority, which consisted of the poor law guardians for the area. The district did not include the town of Tewkesbury which was a separate municipal borough.
The district was abolished in 1935, and its area was redistributed. Most (21,713 acres (87.87 km2)) passed to Cheltenham Rural District, four parishes (Chaceley, Forthampton, Hasfield and Tirley) were transferred to Gloucester Rural District, while 182 acres (0.74 km2) was included within the municipal borough of Tewkesbury.
List of Parishes
| Parish | Description | Duration | Notes
| | Ashchurch | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
| | Boddington | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
| | Bredon | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1933 | transferred to Pershore Rural District in Worcestershire in 1933
| | Bredons Norton | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1933 | transferred to Pershore Rural District in Worcestershire in 1933
| | Chaceley | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | in Worcestershire until 1931; to Gloucester Rural District in 1935
| | Conderton | hamlet, civil parish | 1984 - 1933 | transferred to Evesham Rural District in Worcestershire in 1933
| | Deerhurst | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
| | Elmstone Hardwicke | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
| | Forthampton | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Gloucester Rural District in 1935
| | Hasfield | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Gloucester Rural District in 1935
| | Kemerton | ancient parish, civil parish | 1931 - 1933 | transferred to Evesham Rural District in Worcestershire in 1933
| | Leigh | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
| | Overbury | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1933 | transferred to Evesham Rural District in Worcestershire in 1933
| | Oxenton | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural Districtin 1935
| | Pendock | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1933 | transferred to Upton upon Severn Rural District in Worcestershire in 1933
| | Stoke Orchard | hamlet, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
| | Teddington | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1931 | in Worcestershire until 1931; to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
| | Tirley | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Gloucester Rural District in 1935
| | Tredington | chapelry, ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
| | Twyning | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
| | Walton Cardiff | chapelry, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
| | Woolstone | ancient parish, civil parish | 1894 - 1935 | to Cheltenham Rural District in 1935
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