Aethwy was a rural district

Rural district

Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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.-England and Wales:In England...

 in the administrative county of Anglesey

Anglesey

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, Wales

Wales

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, from 1894 to 1974.

It was created under the Local Government Act 1894

Local Government Act 1894

The Local Government Act 1894 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The Act followed the reforms carried out at county level under the Local Government Act 1888...

 from the part of the Bangor

Bangor, Wales

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 rural sanitary district which was on Anglesey.

In 1933 it was expanded by a county review order

Local Government Act 1929

The Local Government Act 1929 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made changes to the Poor Law and local government in England and Wales....

, taking in all of the abolished Dwyran Rural District

Dwyran Rural District

Dwyran was a rural district in the administrative county of Anglesey, Wales from 1894 to 1933.The rural district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of Carnarvon Rural Sanitary District in Anglesey...

.

The district was abolished under the Local Government

Local government

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 Act 1972, becoming part of a single Ynys Môn - Isle of Anglesey district.

Civil parishes

Over its existence the rural district contained the following civil parish

Civil parish

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†In Dwyran RD until 1933.