St Albans Rural District

St Albans
St Albans
Area
• 1911	38,772 acres (156.90 km2)
• 1931	37,070 acres (150.0 km2)
• 1961	31,793 acres (128.66 km2)
Population
• 1901	12,264
• 1931	19,578
• 1971	45,333
History
• Origin	sanitary district
• Created	1894
• Abolished	1974
• Succeeded by	Dacorum, St Albans
Status	rural district
Government	St Albans Rural District Council
• HQ	St Albans
• Motto	Exemplio sint virtutis
Subdivisions
• Type	civil parishes

St Albans was from 1894 to 1974 a rural district in the administrative county of Hertfordshire, England.

The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 from the area of the existing St Albans rural sanitary district. An elected rural district council replaced the rural sanitary authority which had consisted of the poor law guardians of the area. The rural district comprised an area surrounding the Borough of St Albans, but did not include the city, which was an independent municipal borough.

The district was abolished on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and its area distributed between the newly created non-metropolitan districts of Dacorum and St Albans.[1]

Parishes

The rural district initially consisted of seven civil parishes. Three parishes were formed in 1894 by the division of the parishes of St Michael, St Peter and Sandridge between the rural district and the city of St Albans.[2] In 1947 the number was increased to eight, with the division of the parish of St Peter Rural.

1894 parish[2]	Notes[2]	1974 district[1]
Harpenden	Part of parish constituted Harpenden Urban District in 1898, remainder became Harpenden Rural parish.	St Albans
Redbourn		Divided between Dacorum (the part within the designated area of Hemel Hempstead New Town) and St Albans (the remainder)
St Michael Rural	Formed from the part of the parish of St Michael outside the City of St Albans	Divided between Dacorum (the part within the designated area of Hemel Hempstead New Town) and St Albans (the remainder)
St Peter Rural	Formed from the part of the parish of St Peter outside the City of St Albans	Colney Heath formed 1947	St Albans
St Peter Rural		London Colney formed 1947	St Albans
St Stephen		St Albans
Sandridge Rural	Formed from the part of the parish of Sandridge outside the City of St Albans. Renamed Sandridge 1957	St Albans
Wheathampstead		St Albans

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References

Local government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. pp. 57–58. ISBN 0-11-750847-0.
Youngs, Frederic A, Jr. (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol:I Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. pp. 626–627. ISBN 0-901050-67-9.

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[guide-1] Local government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. pp. 57–58. ISBN 0-11-750847-0.

[youngs-2] Youngs, Frederic A, Jr. (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol:I Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. pp. 626–627. ISBN 0-901050-67-9.