Aylesbury Rural District

Aylesbury
Area
• 1901	72,123 acres (291.9 km2)
• 1961	89,307 acres (361.4 km2)
Population
• 1901	15,622
• 1971	38,573
History
• Created	1894
• Abolished	1974
• Succeeded by	Aylesbury Vale
Status	Rural district
• HQ	84 Walton Street, Aylesbury

Aylesbury was a rural district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was named after but did not include Aylesbury, which was a separate municipal borough. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 and took over the responsibilities of the disbanded Aylesbury Rural Sanitary District.

The boundaries of the district were substantially altered in the 1930s. In 1933 the county boundary with Oxfordshire was adjusted, and the parish of Kingsey was added to Buckinghamshire and to Aylesbury RD. In 1934 a County Review Order reorganised all the county districts in Buckinghamshire. Aylesbury RD took in most of the disbanded Long Crendon Rural District, while a number of parishes were transferred to Wing Rural District.

The rural district was abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, with its area forming part of the non-metropolitan district of Aylesbury Vale.

Civil parishes

The rural district contained the following civil parishes:

• Ashendon
• Aston Abbots (until 1934)‡
• Aston Clinton
• Aston Sandford
• Bierton with Broughton
• Boarstall (from 1934)†
• Brill (from 1934)†
• Buckland
• Chearsley
• Chilton (from 1934)†
• Cholesbury (until 1934: became part of Cholesbury cum St Leonards CP in Amersham RD)
• Creslow
• Cublington (until 1934)‡
• Cuddington
• Dinton-with-Ford and Upton
• Dorton (from 1934)†
• Drayton Beauchamp
• Granborough (until 1934)‡
• Great Brickhill (until 1934)‡
• Grendon Underwood
• Haddenham
• Halton
• Hardwick
• Hartwell
• Hawridge (until 1934: became part of Cholesbury cum St Leonards CP in Amersham RD)
• Hulcott
• Ickford (from 1934)†
• Kingsey (from 1933: transferred from Oxfordshire)
• Kingswood
• Long Crendon (from 1934)†
• Lower Winchendon
• Ludgershall
• Fleet Marston
• Oakley (from 1934)†
• Oving
• Pitchcott
• Quainton
• Quarrendon
• Shabbington (from 1934)†
• Stoke Mandeville
• Stone
• Upper Winchendon
• Waddesdon
• Weedon
• Wendover
• Westcott
• Weston Turville
• Whitchurch
• Wingrave with Rowsham (until 1934)‡
• Woodham
• Worminghall (from 1934)†
• Wotton Underwood

† Formerly in Long Crendon RD

‡Transferred to Wing RD

External links

• History of local government in Buckinghamshire