Garstang Rural District Council came into being as a result of the Local Government Act of 1894 which created the Rural District of Garstang, and the Garstang Rural District Council.
The Rural District contained the townships of Claughton, Catterall, Kirkland, Nateby, Winmarleigh, Cabus, Barnacre-with-Bonds, Nether Wyresdale, Forton, Holleth, Cleveley, Bilsborrow, and Pilling
The names of all the RDC Chairmen were inscribed on boards which hung in the Council Offices at the top of the High Street.
Chairmen
1895 – 96 George B. Stones
1896 – 1901 George Breakell
1901 – 05 John A. Parkinson
1905 – 1908 George Whitaker
1908 – 13 John Hutchence
1913 – 16 George Woodhouse
1916 – 17 Richard Collinson
1917 – 18 Joseph Jenkinson
1918 – 19 Thomas Ibison
1919 – 20 Richard Thornton
1920 – 21 John Lancaster
1921 – 22 Frederick W. Alty
1922 – 23 Robert Ibison
1923 – 24 Peter D. Hall
1924 -25 Thomas Kelsall
1925 – 26 Robert Kellet
1926 – 27 Richard Clarkson
1927 – 28 Robert Capstick
1928 – 29 James Whitehead
1929 – 30 John S. Haworth
1930 – 31 Robert Kellet
1931 – 32 Joseph Jenkinson
1932 – 33 John W. Chapman
1922 William Stuart
1933 – 35 Harold Thornton
1935 – 36 William Helme
1936 – 37 John W. Fitzherbert-Brockholes
1937 – 38 Edward W. Hornby
1938 – 39 William H. Cartmell
1939 – 40 William Nicholson
1940 – 41 Richard Kellet
1941 – 42 George Fisher
1942 – 43 William J. Porter
1943 – 44 Frederick S. Parr
1944 – 45 Thomas F. Eaves
1945 – 46 Samuel J. Roylance
1946 – 47 James Hodgkinson
1947 – 48 J. Alex Crook
1948 – 49 Harold Thornton
1949 – 50 William Helme
1950 – 51 Robert A. Poole
1951 – 52 George C. Thornton
1952 – 53 Richard Rossall
1953 – 54 William Nicholson
1954 – 55 Edward Robinson
1955 – 56 John W. Chapman
1956 – 57 William H. Harrison
1957 – 58 Thomas F. Eaves
1958 – 59 Thomas Yates
1959 – 60 John Preston
1960 – 61 John G. Shorrocks
1961 – 62 Richard Rossall
1962 – 63 Edwin Hodgson
1963 – 64 Thomas Yates
1964 – 65 D. Hilton Jones
1965 – 66 James A. Jackson
1966 – 67 John Preston
1967 – 68 Edwin Hodgson
1968 – 69 Robert Whittingham
1969 – 70 J. Alex Crook
1970 – 71 Michael J. Fitzherbert-Brockholes
1971 – 72 James A. Jackson
1972 – 73 R. Bernard Shorrock
1973 – 74 Thomas Thompson
In 1974 the re-organisation of local government meant that Garstang RDC disappeared to be replaced by Garstang Town Council with all existing administrative functions passed to Wyre Borough Council.
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