Kingston Rural District

Kingston Rural District was a local government district that briefly existed adjacent to the town of Kingston upon Thames in the Surrey suburbs of London.

It was originally formed in 1875 as Kingston rural Sanitary District, and consisted of the rural area of Kingston Poor Law Union. The Local Government Act 1894 replaced "rural sanitary districts" with "Rural Districts", each containing one or more civil parishes. Kingston Rural District contained seven parishes:
 * Coombe
 * Esher
 * Hook
 * Long Ditton
 * Malden
 * Thames Ditton
 * West Molesey

The rural district was abolished in 1895, and the seven parishes were redistributed to new or existing Urban Districts, reflecting the increasingly built-up nature of the area.


 * Coombe and Malden were merged with New Malden Urban District to for The Maldens and Coombe Urban District
 * Esher, Long Ditton and Thames Ditton formed Esher and the Dittons Urban District
 * Hook was added to Surbiton Urban District
 * West Molesey was merged with existing East Molesey Urban District to form East and West Molesey Urban District.

In 1936 both Malden and Coombe and Surbiton became Municipal Boroughs and in 1965 became part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in Greater London. Esher and the Dittons and East and West Molesey Urban Districts were merged into the larger Esher Urban District in 1933. In 1974 this area became part of the Borough of Elmbridge in Surrey.