Osgoldcross Rural District

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Osgoldcross
History
 • Created 1938
 • Abolished 1974
 • Succeeded by Selby District
City of Wakefield
Status Rural district
 • HQ Pontefract

Osgoldcross Rural District was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was created in 1938, from 19 remaining parishes of the disbanded Pontefract Rural District after three-quarters of its population (but only a small fraction of the area) had been transferred to surrounding authorities - specifically to Castleford (which took 14,145 of the 23,981 in the district in 1931), Knottingley, and Pontefract.

It was named after the Wapentake of Osgoldcross and administered from Pontefract.

Since 1 April 1974, it has formed part of the District of Selby and the City of Wakefield.

At the time of its dissolution it consisted of the following 19 civil parishes.

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All but Darrington and East Hardwick went to Selby district.

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