Place:Thornbury Rural, Gloucestershire, England

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NameThornbury Rural
TypeRural district
Coordinates51.608°N 2.528°W
Located inGloucestershire, England     (1894 - 1974)
See alsoNorthavon District, Avon, Englanddistrict municipality to which most of the rural district was transferred in 1974
Stroud District, Gloucestershire, Englanddistrict municipality to which part of the rural district was transferred in 1974
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Thornbury Rural District was a rural district council centred on Thornbury in the south of Gloucestershire. It was originally formed as a Poor Law Union in 1836 with 21 parishes. The Guardians of the Poor became the Rural Sanitary Authority for the District in 1872. The rural district council became a separate body in 1894. The District was enlarged in 1904 when Henbury was transferred from the abolished Barton Regis Rural District.

Thornbury Rural District was abolished in 1974 and the majority of it transferred into the new county of Avon, as part of the new district of Northavon.

However, a group of parishes in the north of the district, around Berkeley, wished not to transfer into the new county, but chose instead to remain with Gloucestershire, under the new Stroud District Council. These were the parishes of Hinton, Hamfallow, Ham and Stone, Alkington, and Berkeley itself, and all except Stone were part of the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Berkeley.

With the demise of Avon, in 1996, the 'Berkeley parishes' were not re-united with the Thornbury area in the new unitary authority of South Gloucestershire, but remained with the main county of Gloucestershire.

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List of Parishes

ParishDescriptionDurationNotes
Alkington tything, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to Stroud District in 1974
Almondsbury ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Alveston ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Aust tything, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Berkeley ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to Stroud District in 1974
Breadstone tything, chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1935 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Charfield ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Cromhall ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Elberton ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1935 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Falfield chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Ham and Stone tything, chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to Stroud District in 1974
Hamfallow tything, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to Stroud District in 1974
Henbury ancient parish, civil parish 1904 - 1935 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Hill ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Hinton tything, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to Stroud District in 1974
Littleton upon Severn ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1935 absorbed into the parish of Aust in 1935
Oldbury upon Severn chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Olveston ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Patchway civil parish 1953 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Pilning and Severn Beach tything, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Rangeworthy chapelry, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Rockhampton ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Thornbury ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Tortworth ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
Tytherington ancient parish, civil parish 1894 - 1974 to the Northavon District of Avon in 1974 and South Gloucestershire in 1996
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