Atherstone Rural District

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Atherstone
Area
  190121,330 acres (86.3 km2)
  196121,945 acres (88.8 km2)
Population
  190116,356
  197138,596
History
  Created1894
  Abolished1974
  Succeeded by North Warwickshire
Status Rural district
   HQ Atherstone

Atherstone Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of Warwickshire, England, from 1894 to 1974. It was named after its main town and administrative headquarters of Atherstone.

Over the years the district gained territory on the abolition of neighbouring rural districts. In 1932 it gained part of Nuneaton Rural District and in 1965 it gained most of Tamworth Rural District.

As with all rural districts, Atherstone RD was abolished in 1974 (by the Local Government Act 1972) and was merged with part of the Meriden Rural District to form the new non-metropolitan district of North Warwickshire.

Civil parishes

Over the eighty years of its existence, the rural district contained the following civil parishes:

† previously in Tamworth Rural District

‡ previously in Nuneaton Rural District

Coordinates: 52°34′N1°33′W / 52.57°N 1.55°W / 52.57; -1.55

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