Clun and Bishop's Castle Rural District

Clun and Bishop's Castle was a rural district in Shropshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as the Clun Rural District, based on the Clun rural sanitary district. It was enlarged in 1934 under a County Review Order by taking in the disbanded Chirbury Rural District and Teme Rural District.^[1]

1967 saw the district renamed 'Clun and Bishop's Castle', when it absorbed the municipal borough of Bishop's Castle. Bishop's Castle became a rural borough within the rural district.^[2]

The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and was merged to form part of the South Shropshire district.^[3]

Civil parishes

The rural district contained the following civil parishes:^[4]

Bedstone (from 1934)†
Bettwys y Crwyn (from 1934)†
Bishop's Castle (Rural Borough) (from 1967)
Bishop's Castle Rural (until 1934) The parish was abolished, partly to create Colebatch CP, remainder absorbed by Lydham CP
Brompton and Rhiston (from 1934)‡
Bucknell (from 1934)†
Chirbury (from 1934)‡
Clun
Clunbury
Clungunford
Colebatch (created 1934 from part of Bishop's Castle Rural CP)
Edgton
Hopesay
Hopton Castle
Llanfair Waterdine (from 1934)†
Lydbury North
Lydham
Mainstone
More
Myndtown
Norbury
Ratlinghope
Shelve
Stowe (from 1934)†
Wentnor
Worthen (from 1934)‡

†Previously in Teme Rural District

‡Previously in Chirbury Rural District

^ Clun Rural District at Vision of Britain Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 31 January 2006.
^ Clun and Bishop's Castle Rural District at Vision of Britain Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 31 January 2006.
^ HMSO. S.I. 1972/2039
^ Frederic A Youngs Jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Volume II: Northern England, London, 1991