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Amersham Rural District

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Status
  
Rural district

Date dissolved
  
1974

Amersham was a rural district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974. The rural district took over the responsibilities of the disbanded Amersham Rural Sanitary District. It entirely surrounded but did not include Chesham. Chesham and Amersham rural districts were merged to form the Chiltern District under the Local Government Act 1972.

Civil parishes

The parishes were originally:

  • Amersham
  • Ashley Green (created 1897 from part of Chesham)
  • Chalfont St Giles
  • Chalfont St Peter
  • Chartridge (created 1899 from part of Chesham)
  • Chenies
  • Chesham Bois
  • Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards (created 1934 from 4 parishes plus parcels of land previously in Aylesbury Rural District)
  • Coleshill
  • Great Missenden
  • Latimer (created 1899 from part of Chesham)
  • Little Missenden (until 1930)
  • Penn
  • Seer Green
  • The Lee

    • References

    Amersham Rural District Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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