Status Rural district | Date dissolved 1974 | |
Chorley Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1974.
The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as the successor to the Chorley Rural Sanitary District. It comprised an area surrounding but did not include the Municipal Borough of Chorley.
Under the Local Government Act 1972, the rural district was abolished in 1974 and its former area became part of the non-metropolitan Borough of Chorley.
Parishes
The district consisted of twenty-two civil parishes:
References
Chorley Rural District Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA