Bolton Rural District
Coordinates: 53°34′44″N 2°25′30″W / 53.579°N 2.425°W / 53.579; -2.425
‹ The template below (Infobox historic subdivision) is being considered for deletion. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus.›| Bolton | |
| Geography | |
| Status | Rural district |
| HQ | Bolton |
| History | |
| Origin | Rural Sanitary District |
| Created | 1894 |
| Abolished | 1898 |
| Succeeded by | County Borough of Bolton, Turton Urban District, Westhoughton Urban District |
| Politics | |
|---|---|
| Governance | Bolton Rural District Council |
| Subdivisions | |
| Type | Civil parishes |
Bolton was a short-lived rural district in the administrative county of Lancashire. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 and comprised an area surrounding the County Borough of Bolton, and was abolished when the borough was extended in 1898.
The rural district was the successor to the Bolton Rural Sanitary District, which had been created in 1872. Whereas Bolton RSD was governed by a sanitary authority consisting of the local poor law guardians, the rural district was administered by the directly elected Bolton Rural District Council.
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“What life is best?
Courts are but only superficial schools
To dandle fools:
The rural parts are turned into a den
Of savage men:
And where ‘s a city from all vice so free,
But may be termed the worst of all the three?”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)