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'Ampthill' was a rural district in Bedfordshire, England from 1894 to 1974. [1]
It entirely surrounded but did not include the urban district of Ampthill. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, it was merged with other districts to form the new Mid Bedfordshire district.
The rural district contained the following civil parishes:

★ Aspley Guise

★ Aspley Heath

★ Battlesden

★ Clophill

★ Cranfield

★ Eversholt

★ Flitton

★ Flitwick

★ Gravenhurst

★ Harlington

★ Holcot - merged with Salford parish 1933

★ Hulcote and Salford formed 1933 from Holcot, Salford parishes

★ Husborne Crawley

★ Lidlington

★ Marston Moretaine

★ Maulden

★ Millbrook

★ Milton Bryan

★ Potsgrove

★ Pulloxhill

★ Ridgmont

★ Salford - merged with Holcot parish 1933

★ Shillington

★ Silsoe

★ Steppingley

★ Tingrith

★ Toddington Transferred to Luton Rural District 1933

★ Westoning

★ Woburn