South Wilford was a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...

, England from 1894 to 1935. It was formed under the

Local Government Act 1894 The Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The act followed the reforms carried out at county leve ...

from the parts of the parishes of

Wilford Wilford is a village and former civil parish in the Nottingham district in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England. The village is to the northeast of Clifton, Nottinghamshire, Clifton, southwest of West Bridgford, northwest of Ruddi ...

and Lenton which were not part of the county borough of

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. It formed part of the Basford Rural District. On 1 April 1935, under a County Review Order, the parish was abolished and merged with

West Bridgford West Bridgford () is a town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Rushcliffe, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies south of Nottingham city centre, east of Wilford, north of Ruddington and west of Radcliffe-on-Trent ...

and became part of the

West Bridgford Urban District West Bridgford was an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), Urban District in Nottinghamshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was created under the Local Government Act 1894. It was enlarged in 1935 when the part of the civil parishes of ...

. In 1931 the parish had a population of 1097. The part of the parish west of the

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was added to the city of Nottingham in 1952.

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Former civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Nottingham Rushcliffe {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub