• Created1894 | • Abolished | 31 March 1974 |
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• Succeeded by | South Oxfordshire |
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Status | Rural district |
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Map of boundary as of 1971 |
Wallingford Rural District, an administrative area in what was then Berkshire, now Oxfordshire area, in southern England was established in 1894, from the then Berkshire area within Wallingford Rural Sanitary Authority (the Oxfordshire area becoming Crowmarsh Rural District). Wallingford Rural District Council provided many local government functions for the area around the town of Wallingford including Didcot, but not for the borough of Wallingford, which was covered by Wallingford Borough Council. These functions included dealing with contagious diseases, and wartime evacuations and air raid precautions. It also covered housing, water supply and sewage, and fire brigades.
Until the 1950s the council had its offices outside its territory, in the town of Wallingford. In the 1950s the council moved to Didcot, the district's largest settlement, converting the former Northbourne Vicarage on Broadway to become its headquarters. Shortly afterwards, in 1955, a proposal to change the name of the district to Didcot Rural District was considered but rejected.[1]
In 1974 Wallingford RD became part of the district of South Oxfordshire, administered by South Oxfordshire District Council.
Civil parishes
The district contained the following civil parishes during its existence:
References
- ^ "Wallingford Rural Council: Change of name motion lost". Reading Standard. 28 October 1955. p. 12. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
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Towns | | |
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Large villages | |
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Other civil parishes (component villages and hamlets) | - Adwell
- Aston Rowant
- Aston Tirrold
- Aston Upthorpe
- Beckley and Stowood (Beckley, Stowood)
- Berrick Salome (Berrick Prior, Roke, Rokemarsh)
- Binfield Heath
- Bix and Assendon (Bix, Bix Bottom, Lower Assendon, Middle Assendon)
- Brightwell Baldwin
- Britwell Salome
- Checkendon
- Clifton Hampden (Burcot)
- Crowell
- Cuddesdon and Denton (Cuddesdon, Denton)
- Culham
- Cuxham with Easington (Cuxham, Easington)
- Dorchester
- Drayton St. Leonard
- East Hagbourne (Coscote)
- Elsfield
- Eye and Dunsden (Sonning Eye, Dunsden Green, Playhatch)
- Forest Hill with Shotover (Forest Hill, Shotover)
- Goring Heath (Whitchurch Hill, Cray's Pond)
- Great Haseley (Latchford, Little Haseley, North Weston, Rycote)
- Harpsden
- Highmoor (Satwell)
- Holton
- Ipsden
- Kidmore End (Gallowstree Common)
- Lewknor (Postcombe, South Weston)
- Little Milton
- Little Wittenham
- Long Wittenham
- Mapledurham (Trench Green, Chazey Heath)
- Marsh Baldon (Little Baldon)
- Moulsford
- Nettlebed
- Newington (Great Holcombe)
- North Moreton
- Nuffield
- Nuneham Courtenay
- Pishill with Stonor (Pishill, Stonor, Maidensgrove, Russell's Water)
- Pyrton (Clare, Standhill)
- Rotherfield Greys
- Rotherfield Peppard
- Shirburn
- South Moreton (Fulscot)
- South Stoke (Littlestoke)
- Stadhampton (Chiselhampton, Ascott, Brookhampton)
- Stanton St. John (Woodperry)
- Stoke Row
- Stoke Talmage
- Swyncombe
- Sydenham (Kingston Stert)
- Tetsworth
- Tiddington-with-Albury (Tiddington, Albury)
- Toot Baldon (Baldon Row)
- Towersey
- Warborough (Shillingford)
- Waterperry with Thomley (Waterperry, Thomley)
- Waterstock
- West Hagbourne
- Wheatfield
- Whitchurch-on-Thames
- Wilcote
- Woodeaton
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Former districts and boroughs | |
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Former constituencies | - Oxfordshire County Constituency
- Wallingford Borough Constituency
- Abingdon Borough Constituency
- Berkshire North or Abingdon County Constituency
- Abingdon County Constituency
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