Wantage Rural District

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Wantage Rural District was a former local government district in Berkshire, England, that administered the rural areas around the town of Wantage until its abolition in the 1974 reorganization of local government.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former local government district
rural district
abolishedBy Local Government Act 1972
adminHQ Wantage
administeredArea rural areas around Wantage
archivedBy Berkshire Record Office
borderedBy Abingdon Rural District
Faringdon Rural District
Hungerford Rural District
Oxford Rural District
Swindon Rural District
Bullingdon Rural District
surface form: Wallingford Rural District
category Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972
Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
Former districts of Berkshire
containedSettlement Ashbury
Childrey
East Hendred
Faringdon
Grove
Kingston Lisle
Lambourn
Letcombe Bassett
Letcombe Regis
Shrivenham
Sparsholt
Stanford in the Vale
Uffington
Wantage
Watchfield
country United Kingdom
createdBy Local Government Act 1894
dissolutionReason 1974 local government reorganization in England
existedUntil 1974
governmentType rural district council
historicCounty Berkshire
legislativeFramework English local government system
locatedIn Berkshire
England
South East England
namedAfter Wantage
partOf administrative county of Berkshire
predecessor Wantage Rural District self-linksurface differs
surface form: Wantage Rural Sanitary District
replacedBy Vale of White Horse District
surface form: Vale of White Horse district
startPoint 1894
status abolished
successor Vale of White Horse District
surface form: Vale of White Horse district
timePeriod 20th century

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vale of White Horse formedFrom Wantage Rural District
Vale of White Horse District Council precededBy Wantage Rural District
this entity surface form: Wantage Rural District Council
Wantage Rural District predecessor Wantage Rural District self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Wantage Rural Sanitary District