Conisbrough Urban District

Coordinates: 53°29′02″N 1°13′34″W / 53.484°N 1.226°W

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Conisbrough
Urban district

Area
1,593 acres (645 ha)

Population
• 1911	15,673
• 1931	18,174
• 1961	17,594^[1]

History
• Created	1 April 1921
• Abolished	31 March 1974
• Succeeded by	Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster


Contained within
• County Council	West Riding


Map of boundary as of 1971

Conisbrough was an urban district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England between 1921 and 1974. It encompassed the towns of Conisbrough and Denaby Main.

History

The Urban District was formed on 1 April 1921 by an order of West Riding County Council following a decision taken in March 1920 in response to an application by Conisbrough Parish Council to grant the powers of an urban district to an area constituting the Parish of Conisbrough and parts of the parishes of Denaby Main and Cadeby.^[2]

Similar applications had been made by the Conisborough Parish Council in 1898 and again in 1900. On both occasions the County Council made the order following the holding of enquiries, and they were both revoked on appeal to the Local Government Board. Before 1921, the Conisborough and Denaby area was administered by Doncaster Rural District via a parochial committee, a situation in which 900 rural electors returned six members to the RDC and this area with a population of 17,500 returned five.^[3]

Conisbrough Urban District Council held its first meeting on 9 April 1921, electing Mr H C Harrison, a mines manager, as its first chairman.^[4] In September 1921, the UDC purchased Albion House on Station Road at a cost of £2,650 to use as municipal premises.^[5]

Conisbrough UD was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster on 1 April 1974, along with the County Borough of Doncaster, Adwick-le-Street, Bentley with Arksey, Mexborough, and Tickhill urban districts, Doncaster and Thorne rural districts, and parts of East Retford and Worksop rural districts. No successor parish was created for the area.

References

^ Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Conisbrough UD. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
^ "Urban Powers for Conisbrough". Conisbrough and Denaby Main Local History. Mexborough & Swinton Times. 13 March 1920. Archived from the original on 14 February 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
^ "Conisborough Urban Powers Application". Conisbrough and Denaby Main Local History. Mexborough & Swinton Times. 29 November 2019. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
^ "Conisborough Urban District Council – First Meeting of the New Body". Conisbrough and Denaby Main Local History. Mexborough & Swinton Times. 9 April 1921. Archived from the original on 29 September 2021. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
^ "Conisboro' Urban Council – Purchase of Municipal Offices – Happy Financial Position". Conisbrough and Denaby Main Local History. Mexborough & Swinton Times. 17 September 1921. Archived from the original on 14 February 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2023.

v t e Administrative county of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1888–1974)
West Riding County Council
County boroughs	Barnsley Bradford Dewsbury Doncaster Halifax Huddersfield Leeds Rotherham Sheffield Wakefield York
Municipal boroughs	Batley Brighouse Castleford Goole Harrogate Keighley Morley Ossett Pontefract Pudsey Ripon Spenborough Todmorden
Urban districts	Adwick le Street Aireborough Baildon Barnoldswick Bentley with Arksey Bingley Colne Valley Conisbrough Cudworth Darfield Darton Dearne Denby Dale Denholme Dodworth Earby Elland Featherstone Garforth Hebden Royd Heckmondwike Hemsworth Holmfirth Horbury Horsforth Hoyland Nether Ilkley Kirkburton Knaresborough Knottingley Maltby Meltham Mexborough Mirfield Normanton Otley Penistone Queensbury and Shelf Rawmarsh Ripponden Rothwell Royston Saddleworth Shipley Silsden Skipton Sowerby Bridge Stanley Stocksbridge Swinton Tickhill Wath upon Dearne Wombwell Worsbrough Abolished before 1974: Altofts Ardsley Ardsley East and West Balby with Hexthorpe Barkisland Bingley Outer Birkenshaw Birstall Bolton upon Dearne Burley in Wharfedale Calverley Clayton Clayton West Cleckheaton Denby and Cumberworth Drighlington Eccleshill Emley Farnley Tyas Farsley Flockton Fulstone Gildersome Golcar Gomersal Greasborough Greetland Guiseley Gunthwaite and Ingbirthworth Handsworth Haworth Hebden Bridge Hepworth Hipperholme Holme Honley Hoyland Swaine Hunsworth Idle Kirkheaton Lepton Linthwaite Liversedge Luddenden Foot Marsden Methley Midgley Monk Bretton Mytholmroyd Netherthong New Mill North Bierley Northowram Oakworth Oxenhope Queensbury Quickmere Mid. Div. Ravensthorpe Rawdon Rishworth Sandal Magna Scammonden Scholes Shelf Shelley Shepley Skelmanthorpe Slaithwaite Soothill Nether Soothill Upper South Crosland Southowram Sowerby Soyland Springhead Stainland Thornhill Thornton Thurlstone Thurnscoe Thurstonland and Farnley Tyas Tong Upper Mill Warley Wheatley Whitley Upper Whitwood Wilsden Yeadon
Rural districts	Bowland Doncaster Goole Hemsworth Hepton Kiveton Park Nidderdale Osgoldcross Penistone Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rotherham Sedbergh Selby Settle Skipton Tadcaster Thorne Wakefield Wetherby Wharfedale Wortley Abolished before 1974: Barnsley Bishopthorpe Great Ouseburn Halifax Hunslet Keighley Knaresborough Leeds Pateley Bridge Pontefract Ripon Saddleworth Todmorden

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