Eton Rural District

Eton
Area
• 1911	41,005 acres (165.9 km2)
• 1961	35,537 acres (143.8 km2)
Population
• 1901	20,038
• 1971	72,035
History
• Created	1894
• Abolished	1974
• Succeeded by	South Bucks
Status	Rural district

Eton was a rural district in the administrative county of Buckinghamshire, England. It was named after but did not contain Eton, which was an urban district.

It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 and took over the responsibilities of the disbanded Eton Rural Sanitary District. It included the parishes of

• Boveney (abolished 1934, rural part to Dorney, urban part to Eton)
• Burnham
• Datchet
• Denham
• Dorney
• Eton Wick
• Farnham Royal
• Fulmer
• Gerrards Cross (created 1895)
• Hedgerley
• Hedgerley Dean (abolished 1934, split between Farnham Royal, Gerrards Cross, Hedgerley)
• Hitcham (abolished 1934, split between Burnham, Dorney and Taplow)
• Horton
• Iver
• Langley Marish (part to Slough in 1930, remainder split between Fulmer and Wexham in 1934)
• Stoke Poges
• Taplow
• Upton cum Chalvey (abolished c. 1900, most to Slough)
• Wexham
• Wyrardisbury

The district was abolished on 1 April 1974. It was partitioned between Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire (Datchet, Horton and Wraysbury parishes) and Beaconsfield district in Buckinghamshire, with a small part of Burnham and Wexham parishes going to Slough.

File:Slough in bucks 1971.png

Eton RD is the entity above around Slough ( Slough is tinted dark green), but not the small borough directly below it, which is Eton UD.

Administrative map of England in 1931.