Chesterton was a rural district in Cambridgeshire, England from 1894 to 1974.
It was formed in 1894 as a successor to the Chesterton rural sanitary district. In 1934, under a County Review Order, its boundaries were altered, taking in the disbanded Swavesey Rural District and part of the disbanded Caxton and Arrington Rural District. It also ceded an area to the borough of Cambridge.
In 1965 it became part of the new administrative county of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely.
The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and merged with the South Cambridgeshire Rural District to form a new South Cambridgeshire district.
Parishes Parish From To Notes Bar Hill Barton Bourn 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Boxworth 1934 Previously Swavesey RD Caldecote 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Caxton 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Cherry Hinton 1934 Taken into Cambridge MB Childerley Comberton Conington 1934 Previously Swavesey RD Coton Cottenham Croxton 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Dry Drayton Elsworth 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Eltisley 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Fen Ditton Fen Drayton 1934 Previously Swavesey RD Fulbourn Girton Grantchester Graveley 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Great Shelford Great Wilbraham Hardwick 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Harlton Harston Haslingfield Hauxton Histon Horningsea Impington Knapwell 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Landbeach Little Shelford Little Wilbraham Lolworth 1934 Previously Swavesey RD Longstanton 1953 Merger of the following 2 parishes: Longstanton All Saints 1953 Longstanton St Michael 1953 Madingley Milton Newton Oakington Over 1934 Previously Swavesey RD Papworth Everard 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Papworth St Agnes 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Rampton Stapleford Stow cum Quy Swavesey 1934 Previously Swavesey RD Teversham Toft 1934 Previously Caxton and Arrington RD Trumpington 1934 Mostly taken into Cambridge MB Waterbeach Westwick Willingham
References A Vision of Britain through time: Chesterton RD