Limehurst was, from 1894 to 1954, a rural district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England.
Ashton-under-Lyne Rural Sanitary District was created in 1872 and included parishes in both Cheshire and Lancashire.
Accordingly, the area of Ashton RSD was divided with the Lancashire parishes forming Limehurst Rural District and the Cheshire parishes becoming Tintwistle Rural District.
[2] The rural district originally consisted of seven parishes:[1] Six of the parishes formed an area bounded to the north by Failsworth and Oldham and to the south by Ashton-under-Lyne, Mossley and Droylsden.
The parish of Crossbank formed an exclave, lying to the north of Lees Urban District.