Elstree Rural District
| Barnet Elstree (after 1941) |
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| Geography | |
| Status | Rural district |
| 1911 area | 10,820 acres (43.8 km2) |
| 1974 area | 8,339 acres (33.75 km2) |
| History | |
| Created | 1894 |
| Abolished | 1974 |
| Succeeded by | Barnet Urban District Hertsmere |
| Demography | |
|---|---|
| 1901 population | 4,154 |
| 1971 population | 33,586 |
Elstree (until 1941 known as Barnet) was a rural district in Hertfordshire, England from 1894 to 1974.
It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 as Barnet Rural District,[1] as successor to the Barnet rural sanitary district. The rural district had an identical area to Barnet RSD except for the parish of South Mimms in Middlesex which went to form a single-parish South Mimms Rural District.
The district was renamed Elstree Rural District in 1941.[2] It was abolished in 1974, and merged with other districts to form the non-metropolitan district of Hertsmere.
[edit] Civil parishes
Over its existence the rural district consisted of the following civil parishes:[3]
- Arkley (formed from the rural part of the parish of Chipping Barnet in 1894)
- Elstree
- Ridge
- Shenley
- Totteridge
Totteridge constituted an exclave.[4] Arkley became part of the Barnet Urban District in 1905, and was joined there by Totteridge in 1914.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Vision of Britain - Barnet RD
- ^ Vision of Britain - Elstree RD
- ^ Frederic A Youngs Jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, London 1979
- ^ Vision of Britain - Barnet RD boundaries (exclave shown)
