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Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the administrative counties.__TOC__
Usage examples of "rural district".
A unique scene, representative of the many colorful situations that youthful friendship could involve in a rural district amid the unchanging embodiments of country life -- peasant, farmhand, pastor, schoolmaster, postmaster, peddler, cheesemaker, dairy co-operative inspector, apprentice forester, and village idiot -- perpetuated itself for many years without being photographed: somewhere in the dunes, with his back to the woods and their aisles, Amsel is at work.
I rent a couple of rooms there for the business, in the same building as the Rural District Council, and the Waterworks Company.
Not sharing with Mr Pearce the privilege of membership of Pennick Rural District Council, she was unaccustomed to the somewhat dislocated language in which the affairs of that and similar authorities habitually are conducted.
After David Minge, who represented a rural district in Minnesota, said he would vote no, it all came down to three people: Pat Williams of Montana, Ray Thornton of Arkansas, and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky of Pennsylvania.
From listening to Macurdy, the man actually pinpointed the rural district from which Klara and Fritzi had come.
He would have repudiated with scorn any suggestion that he should seek fame in a rural district remote from the hub of fashion.
Perhaps it was easier to counter the blizzard of negative TV ads in a small state or a rural district.
In all the rural district near about, and even in the town of Marshall, a mile away, not one person of unbiased mind entertains a doubt of it.
Every neighborhood in Iraq's bigger cities, every town, and every rural district has a local Amn office that keeps tabs on everything that happens in the area.
First, the schoolhouse was abandoned, and they could tell it was in a rural district.
Reichardt said, we looked as if we had selected a dwelling in our own beloved England, in the heart of a rural district, instead of our being circumscribed in a little island thousands of miles across the wide seas, from the home of which we were so fond of talking.
The place had been built in a remote rural district in anticipation of further growth, but the collapse of the Empire had cooled Commenor's economy enough that such expansion didn't take place.