page_title: Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District
section_title: Background and boundaries
hierarchical_section_title: Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District / Background and boundaries
context_page_description: Sunbury on Thames Urban District, also known as Sunbury Urban District, was a local government district from 1894 to 1974 comprising the town and parish of Sunbury-on-Thames and from 1930 also the parishes of Littleton and Shepperton.
context_section_description: In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, Sunbury on Thames was created an urban district of the administrative county of Middlesex.  It adopted planning, lighting and sanitary responsibilities. For 36 years it covered just the parish of Sunbury, which still includes the hamlets (colloquially villages) of Charlton and Upper Halliford but gained the parishes of Shepperton and Littleton in 1930 on the abolition of the Staines Rural District.
caption: Sunbury U.D. in Middlesex 1930-1965 (rest of county as at 1931)