The rural district lay on the edge of three counties with very irregular boundaries, including a number of detached parishes.
The district initially consisted of two parts:
Seven civil parishes formed part of a salient of Gloucestershire surrounded by Warwickshire and Worcestershire:[1]
Three parishes formed an area to the south, separated from the main part of the district by the Worcestershire parish of Blockley:
A further two parishes lay to the east:
In February 1930 Warwickshire County Council made an application under the Local Government Act 1888 for an alteration of the county's boundary. The council sought to annex the parishes of Admington and Quinton along with the entire Marston Sicca Rural District.[3] Following the coming into force of the Local Government Act 1929 later in the year, county councils gained the power to adjust boundaries by negotiation, subject to ministerial approval. In December 1930, following a public inquiry conducted in Cheltenham, the Minister for Health approved a scheme to transfer a number of parishes between Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.[4] The alterations required the promotion of a private parliamentary bill, which was approved by the House of Commons in February 1931, and came into force on 1 April 1931.[5][6]
The Act added five parishes to Campden RD: these were the Worcestershire parish of Blockley and four parishes from the abolished Pebworth Rural District: Aston Subedge, Saintbury, Weston Subedge and Willersey.[1][7]
The district was finally abolished in 1935 and its area redistributed. The bulk of the district was merged with Stow on the Wold urban and rural districts to form the new North Cotswold Rural District. Three parishes in the north of the district, Admington, Clopton and Quinton, were transferred to Warwickshire and to Stratford on Avon Rural District.[1][7]
