Tarvin Rural District

Tarvin was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Cheshire, England. The district was named after the village of Tarvin, and saw considerable boundary changes throughout its life.

Creation
The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 as the successor to Tarvin Rural Sanitary District. It initially consisted of the following civil parishes:

• Aldersley

• Aldford

• Ashton

• Barrow

• Barton

• Beeston

• Broxton

• Buerton

• Bruen Stapleford

• Burton by Tarvin

• Burwardsley

• Caldecott

• Carden

• Chowley

• Church Shocklach

• Churton by Aldford

• Churton by Farndon

• Churton Heath

• Clotton Hoofield

• Clutton

• Coddington

• Cotton Abbotts

• Crewe

• Duddon

• Edgerley

• Farndon

• Foulk Stapleford

• Golborne Bellow

• Golborne David

• Lower Kinnerton

• Grafton

• Guilden Sutton

• Handley

• Harthill

• Hatton

• Hockenhull

• Horton

• Horton cum Peel

• Huntington

• Huxley

• Iddinshall

• Kelsall

• Kings Marsh

• Lea Newbold

• Mouldsworth

• Newton by Tattenhall

• Prior's Heys

• Rowton

• Saighton

• Shocklach Oviatt

• Stretton

• Tarvin

• Tattenhall

• Tilston

• Tilstone Fearnall

• Tiverton

• Waverton

• Willington

1936 boundary changes
In 1936 the boundaries of the rural district were substantially altered under a county review order. It lost large parts to Chester Rural District, but also absorbed most of the disbanded Malpas Rural District.
 * 10746 acre (Aldford, Barrow, Buerton, Churton by Aldford, Churton Heath, Guilden Sutton, Huntington, Lea Newbold, Rowton, and Saighton) passed to Chester RD
 * 233 acre to Nantwich Rural District
 * 11 acre to Hoole Urban District
 * 16712 acre were received from Malpas RD.

The following parishes were added to the district: • Agden

• Bickley

• Bradley

• Chidlow

• Chorlton

• Cuddington

• Duckington

• Edge

• Hampton

• Larkton

• Macefen

• Malpas

• Newton by Malpas

• Oldcastle

• Overton

• Stockton

• Threapwood

• Tushingham cum Grindley

• Wigland

• Wychough

Abolition
The Local Government Act 1972 completely reorganised council boundaries throughout England and Wales. On 1 April 1974 Tarvin Rural District was merged with the city and county borough of Chester and the Chester Rural District to form the new non-metropolitan district of Chester.