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Maelor Rural District


Name	Overton / Maelor
HQ	Overton
Government	Overton Rural District Council (1894 - 1953) Maelor Rural District Council (1953 - 1974)
Origin	rural sanitary district
Status	rural district
Start	1894
End	1974
Replace	Wrexham Maelor
Divisions	Civil parishes
PopulationFirst	5,057
PopulationFirstYear	1901
AreaFirst	29750 acre (120.4 km2)
AreaFirstYear	1911
PopulationSecond	4,698
PopulationSecondYear	1971
AreaSecond	29749 acre (120.4 km2)
AreaSecondYear	1961

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Maelor was a rural district in the administrative county of Flintshire, Wales, from 1894 to 1974. The area approximated to the hundred of Maelor or Maelor Saesneg, and was notable for forming a detached part of the county, surrounded by Cheshire, Denbighshire and Shropshire.

The district was formed as Overton Rural District by the Local Government Act 1894 from the Flintshire parishes of Ellesmere, Whitchurch and Wrexham Rural Sanitary Districts. It was renamed as Maelor Rural District in 1953. It consisted of eleven civil parishes:

*Bangor Is Coed

*Bettisfield

*Bronington

*Halghton

*Hanmer

*Iscoyd

*Overton

*Penley

*Tybroughton

*Willington

*Worthenbury

The district was abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, when it was merged into Wrexham Maelor, one of six districts of the new County of Clwyd.

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