Everything about Penrith Rural District totally explained
Penrith was a
rural district within the
administrative county of
Cumberland, England that existed from 1894 to 1974 with slight boundary changes in 1934.
The district largely corresponded to the ancient
Leath Ward of Cumberland but excluding the parishes of
Penrith and
Alston with Garrigill. The area had been a
rural sanitary district prior to the
Local Government Act 1894. Penrith itself was covered by
Penrith Urban District, which the Rural District surrounded on the west, north and east.
The council was based at offices known as Mansion House in Penrith now used by its successor authority
Eden District Council.
Within the district's boundaries was a small part of the
Lake District National Park.
The district was abolished by the
Local Government Act 1972 on
April 1,
1974, being merged with other districts to form the
Eden district.
At its demise in 1974 the district was divided into the
civil parishes of:
The name
Penrith Rural was resurrected as a new
electoral division of
Cumbria in the 1990s but doesn't include any of the area once administered by the Penrith RDC and does in fact cover an area of the ancient county of
Westmorland.
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