Civil Parishes
The rural district consisted of a number of civil parishes:
- Ackworth
- Badsworth
- Billingley (transferred in 1938 from abolished Barnsley Rural District)
- Brierley
- Great Houghton
- Hamphall Stubbs (parish abolished in 1938, and area transferred to Hampole parish in Doncaster Rural District)
- Havercroft with Cold Hiendley
- Hemsworth (constituted a separate urban district in 1921)
- Hessle and Hill Top
- Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell
- Kirk Smeaton
- Little Houghton
- Little Smeaton
- North Elmsall
- Ryhill
- Shafton
- Skelbrooke (parish abolished in 1938, and area transferred to Hampole parish in Doncaster Rural District)
- South Elmsall
- South Hiendley
- South Kirkby
- Thorpe Audlin
- Upton
- Walden Stubbs
- West Hardwick
- Wintersett (transferred to Wakefield Rural District in 1938).
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