Tynemouth Rural District

Tynemouth Rural District
Tynemouth Rural District
Area
• 1911	13,136 acres (53.2 km2)
Population
• 1901	18,181
• 1911	23,703
History
• Preceded by	Tynemouth Rural Sanitary District
• Origin	Local Government Act 1894
• Created	1894
• Abolished	1912
• Succeeded by	Blyth Urban District; Cramlington Urban District; Longbenton Urban District; Seaton Deleval Urban District; Whitley and Monkseaton Urban District;
Status	Rural district
Contained within
• County	Northumberland

55°4′30″N 1°33′0″W / 55.07500°N 1.55000°W / 55.07500; -1.55000 Tynemouth was a rural district in the English county of Northumberland.

It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Tynemouth rural sanitary district. It initially contained the following parishes:

In 1897 the parishes of Backworth, Earsdon, Holywell and Murton became an Earsdon Urban District. A Camperdown parish was created in 1910 from the Weetslade urban district, also taking in part of Longbenton urban district. In 1910 Willington and part of Longbenton were added to the Municipal Borough of Wallsend.

The rural district was dissolved in 1912, being split between the Blyth, Longbenton, Whitley and Monkseaton, Seaton Delaval and Cramlington urban districts.

References

Youngs, Volume 2^{[full citation needed]}