The office of alderman was not to exist in rural boroughs.

Those challenges transformed the area into a rural borough to become a lightly industrialized one.

Rural boroughs were prevented from applying for a new or amended charter, however.

Bishop's Castle became a rural borough within the rural district.

Rural boroughs were abolished in 1974 and Ludlow's borough status at that point ended.

Cornwall, 1968 (extensive changes to county districts and creation of one rural borough)

He said Waverley's mix of market towns and rural communities made it a "very rural borough".

Before 1900, the history of the city was similar to that of the rural boroughs of Ile-de-France.

Rural boroughs were abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and converted to civil parishes.

Seven rural boroughs were created:

For a long time, residents of New York's least populated and most rural borough have been talking about breaking away from the city and governing themselves.

Then in 1967 it absorbed the municipal borough of Ludlow, which became a rural borough within the rural district.

The name Calderdale usually refers to the large urban and rural borough (centred on Halifax) through which the upper river flows.

Mugardos is a predominantly rural borough, though important industries like shipyards, foundries, and workshops are to be found in nearby Ferrol.

The cheapest and most rural borough of New York City, Staten Island joined the other four at the turn of the twentieth century.

Suio is a frazione (rural borough) of Castelforte, a municipality in southern Latium, central Italy.

The boroughs thus effected would be known as "boroughs included in rural districts", or as rural boroughs.

Devon in 1967 (creation of Torbay county borough, other changes including creation of one rural borough)

It retained this status as a municipal borough until 1967, when it became a rural borough in the South Molton Rural District.

Redditch South West (Redditch South West and Rural Borough)

Under the Local Government Act 1958, small municipal boroughs could be absorbed by surrounding rural districts to become rural boroughs, with the powers of a parish council.

But in 1964 the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge provided easy access to the city's most rural borough, and with it came development that chewed up farms, parkland and riding trails.

Mrs Patmore, her eight neighbours in Lodge Lane in Bacup, and residents all over the rural borough of Rossendale, are appalled and angry.

Community leaders fought for a decade for a new station house, and not just because Fort Apache, opened in 1914 in a rural borough, is cramped and showing its age.

In 1967 the borough of Torquay was absorbed by the new county borough of Torbay, while six boroughs were merged with rural districts to become "rural boroughs".