Isle of Axholme Rural District

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Isle of Axholme
Isle of Axholme Rural District, Lindsey (1970).svg
Isle of Axholme Rural District shown within Parts of Lindsey in 1970.
Area
  190128,070 acres (113.6 km2)
  196151,104 acres (206.8 km2)
Population
  19016,680
  197114,916
History
  Created1894
  Abolished1974
  Succeeded by Boothferry
Status Rural district
   HQ Epworth

Isle of Axholme was a rural district in Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey from 1894 to 1974. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Lincolnshire parts of the Thorne rural sanitary district and two parishes of the Goole RSD (covering the northern part of the Isle of Axholme).

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After the abolition of Crowle Urban District and taking in some parishes from the Gainsborough Rural District in 1936, it covered all of the Isle.

It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 and went to form part of the Boothferry district of Humberside. Since 1996 it has been incorporated in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire.

Civil parishes

The rural district contained the following civil parishes over its existence: [1]

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Garthorpe is a village in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately 8 miles (13 km) south-east from Goole, 1 mile (1.6 km) west from the River Trent, and in the Isle of Axholme. Together with Fockerby, which is contiguous with the village, Garthorpe forms a civil parish of about 500 inhabitants, measured as 418 in the 2011 census.

References

  1. Frederic A Youngs Jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Volume II: Northern England, London, 1991

Coordinates: 53°33′N0°48′W / 53.55°N 0.8°W / 53.55; -0.8