Middlesbrough Rural District the parishes of Hemlington, Marton, Ormesby and West Acklam becoming part of the county borough of Middlesbrough, and the rest becoming part of the Stokesley Rural District. Middlesbrough Rural District Middlesbrough Rural District was a rural district in the North Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1932. It was based on the Middlesbrough rural sanitary district created in 1875, which consisted of the Middlesbrough poor law union, except those parts in urban sanitary districts (that is: Middlesbrough, Eston (from 1884) and Thornaby on Tees). The rural district from 1894 consisted of the following parishes In 1913, Ormesby, formerly an urban
Middlesbrough formed in 1894, covering a rural area to the south of the town. It was abolished in 1932, partly going to the county borough; but mostly going to the Stokesley Rural District. In 1968 Middlesbrough became part of the County Borough of Teesside, and in 1974 it became part of the non-metropolitan county of Cleveland until the county's abolition in 1996, when Middlesbrough became a unitary authority. The town now forms part of North Yorkshire for ceremonial purposes only. Currently the Middlesbrough constituency is represented by Andy McDonald for Labour in the House of Commons. He was elected in a