Tarvin Rural District

Tarvin was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Cheshire, England. The district was named after the village of Tarvin, and saw considerable boundary changes throughout its life.^[1]

Tarvin
Tarvin RD within Cheshire in 1970
Area
• 1911	56,874 acres (230.16 km2)
• 1931	56,871 acres (230.15 km2)
• 1961	62,593 acres (253.30 km2)
Population
• 1901	12,614
• 1931	13,279
• 1971	18,152
History
• Origin	Sanitary district
• Created	1894
• Abolished	1974
• Succeeded by	Chester
Status	Rural district
Government	Tarvin Rural District Council
• HQ	Tarvin House, Tower Wharf, Chester
Subdivisions
• Type	Civil parishes

Creation

The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as the successor to Tarvin Rural Sanitary District. It initially consisted of the following civil parishes:^[2]

• Aldersley
• Aldford
• Ashton
• Barrow
• Barton
• Beeston
• Broxton
• Buerton
• Bruen Stapleford
• Burton by Tarvin
• Burwardsley
• Caldecott
• Carden
• Chowley
• Church Shocklach
• Churton by Aldford
• Churton by Farndon
• Churton Heath
• Clotton Hoofield
• Clutton
• Coddington
• Cotton Abbotts
• Crewe
• Duddon
• Edgerley
• Farndon
• Foulk Stapleford
• Golborne Bellow
• Golborne David
• Lower Kinnerton
• Grafton
• Guilden Sutton
• Handley
• Harthill
• Hatton
• Hockenhull
• Horton
• Horton cum Peel
• Huntington
• Huxley
• Iddinshall
• Kelsall
• Kings Marsh
• Lea Newbold
• Mouldsworth
• Newton by Tattenhall
• Prior's Heys
• Rowton
• Saighton
• Shocklach Oviatt
• Stretton
• Tarvin
• Tattenhall
• Tilston
• Tilstone Fearnall
• Tiverton
• Waverton
• Willington

1936 boundary changes

In 1936 the boundaries of the rural district were substantially altered under a county review order. It lost large parts to Chester Rural District, but also absorbed most of the disbanded Malpas Rural District.

• 10,746 acres (43.49 km²) (Aldford, Barrow, Buerton, Churton by Aldford, Churton Heath, Guilden Sutton, Huntington, Lea Newbold, Rowton, and Saighton) passed to Chester RD
• 233 acres (0.94 km²) to Nantwich Rural District
• 11 acres (0.045 km²) to Hoole Urban District
• 16,712 acres (67.63 km²) were received from Malpas RD.^[1][2]

The following parishes were added to the district:

• Agden
• Bickley
• Bradley
• Chidlow
• Chorlton
• Cuddington
• Duckington
• Edge
• Hampton
• Larkton
• Macefen
• Malpas
• Newton by Malpas
• Oldcastle
• Overton
• Stockton
• Threapwood
• Tushingham cum Grindley
• Wigland
• Wychough

Abolition

The Local Government Act 1972 completely reorganised council boundaries throughout England and Wales. On 1 April 1974 Tarvin Rural District was merged with the city and county borough of Chester and the Chester Rural District to form the new non-metropolitan district of Chester.^[2]