St Albans Rural District
Coordinates: 51°45′07″N 0°20′10″W / 51.752°N 0.336°W / 51.752; -0.336
| St Albans | |
| Geography | |
| Status | rural district |
| 1911 area | 38,772 acres (156.90 km2) |
| 1931 area | 37,070 acres (150.0 km2) |
| 1961 area | 31,793 acres (128.66 km2) |
| HQ | St Albans |
| History | |
| Origin | sanitary district |
| Created | 1894 |
| Abolished | 1974 |
| Succeeded by | Dacorum, St Albans |
| Demography | |
|---|---|
| 1901 population | 12,264 |
| 1931 population | 19,578 |
| 1971 population | 45,333 |
| Politics | |
| Governance | St Albans Rural District Council |
| Subdivisions | |
| Type | civil parishes |
St Albans was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Hertfordshire, England.
The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 from the area of the existing St Albans rural sanitary district. An elected rural district council replaced the rural sanitary authority which had consisted of the poor law guardians of the area. The rural district comprised an area surrounding St Albans, but did not include the city, which was an independent municipal borough.
The district was abolished on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and its area distributed between the newly created non-metropolitan districts of Dacorum and St Albans.
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