Tynemouth Rural District

55°4′30″N 1°33′0″W Tynemouth was a rural district in the English county of Northumberland.

Tynemouth Rural District
Area
• 1911	13,136 acres (53.2 km2)
Population
• 1901	18,181
• 1911	23,703
History
• Preceded by	Tynemouth Rural Sanitary District
• Origin	Local Government Act 1894
• Created	1894 (1894)
• Abolished	1912 (1912)
• Succeeded by	Blyth Urban District Cramlington Urban District Longbenton Urban District Seaton Deleval Urban District Whitley and Monkseaton Urban District
Status	Rural district
Contained within
• County	Northumberland

It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Tynemouth rural sanitary district. It initially contained the following parishes:

• Backworth
• Bebside
• Burradon
• Earsdon
• East Hartford
• Hartley
• Holywell
• Horton
• Longbenton
• Murton
• Seaton Delaval
• West Hartford
• Willington

In 1897 the parishes of Backworth, Earsdon, Holywell and Murton became an Earsdon Urban District. A Camperdown parish was created in 1910 from the Weetslade urban district, also taking in part of Longbenton urban district. In 1910 Willington and part of Longbenton were added to the Municipal Borough of Wallsend.

The rural district was dissolved in 1912, being split between the Blyth, Longbenton, Whitley and Monkseaton, Seaton Delaval and Cramlington urban districts.

References

• Youngs, Volume 2^{[full citation needed]}